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Font

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I'm ready to contribute, but I don't know which font and software to use to type in Malayalam. Is it Varamozhi? Can we upload the Malayalam contributions merely by copying and pasting? —SubinDennis 07:20, 20 ജൂൺ 2006 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

How to edit the malayalam WiKi

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  1. Install varamozhi editior
  2. Write in manglish and see the malayalam script.
  3. Export it as unicode
  4. Copy and paste the output to Wiki
  5. Zoom in to read it properly.

—202.122.23.18 06:31, 26 ജൂലൈ 2006 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഒരുക്രമം വേണ്ടേ

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ആരെങ്കിലും ഇത് ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തിയാൽ നന്നായിരുന്നു --Challiyan ൧൩:൪൨, ൬ December ൨൦൦൬ (UTC)

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wikt:പഴഞ്ചൊൽ നിഘണ്ടു‍ എന്ന താൾ ആരെങ്കിലും ഇങ്ങോട്ട് ഒന്നു മെർജ് ചെയ്യണേ.. --Jacob.jose(talk) 04:51, 11 ഏപ്രിൽ 2009 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Bot policy

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Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. —Pathoschild 00:20:34, 28 മാർച്ച് 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

{done} No objections. Bastique(സം‌വാദം) 05:29, 15 ജനുവരി 2011 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

കിരൺ ഗോപിക്ക് അഡ്മിൻ സ്ഥാനം

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സിസോപ്പുകളോ ബ്യൂറോക്രാറ്റുകളോ ഇല്ലാത്ത ഈ വിക്കിയിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ‌ സജീവ ഉപയോക്താവായ കിരൺ ഗോപിയെ സിസോപ്പ് സ്ഥാനത്തേക്ക് നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു. കിരൺ ഗോപിയുടെ സമ്മതവും, മറ്റുപയോക്താക്കളുടെ വോട്ടും ഇതിനു താഴെ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക. --Vssun(talk) 02:27, 26 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി] 

ഈ ചർച്ച/തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ്, തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് താളിലേക്ക് മാറ്റിയിരിക്കുന്നു.--Vssun(talk) 02:30, 26 ജൂൺ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ

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'വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്നാണോ, 'വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്നാണോ പേര് സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നത്? --Naveen Sankar(സം‌വാദം) 13:27, 17 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

'വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്ന നാമമാണ്‌ സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നത്. --Kiran Gopi(സം‌വാദം) 13:55, 17 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
വിക്കി, ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നീ വാക്കുകൾക്കിടയിൽ ഇട (Space) വിടുന്നത് എന്തിനാണെന്നൊന്ന് വിശദീകരിക്കാമോ? വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ മുഖത്താളിലും മറ്റുമിപ്പോൾ വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് ചേർത്തെഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നതായി കാണാം. --Naveen Sankar(സം‌വാദം) 04:39, 19 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് പറയുമ്പോൾ ഒരു ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വാക്കും ഒരു മലയാളം വാക്കുമല്ലേ, അത് കൂട്ടിയോജിപ്പിക്കണ്ട എന്നു കരുതിയാണ്‌ 'വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ' എന്ന നാമം സ്വീകരിച്ചത്. പിന്നെ വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നു ചേർത്തു പറയുന്നത് ഒരു അഭംഗിയാണുതാനും.--Kiran Gopi(സം‌വാദം) 08:34, 19 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല, വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു, വിക്കിപാഠശാല എന്നീ സംരഭങ്ങളുടെ തലക്കെട്ടിൽ ഒരു ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വാക്കും ഒരു മലയാളം വാക്കുമല്ലേ കൂടിചേരുന്നത്? ഇവിടെ മാത്രം എന്തിനാണ് ഇടയ്ക്ക് സ്പേസ് ഇടുന്നത്? --Jairodz സം‌വാദം 12:27, 12 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
പേരു മാറ്റണമെന്നുണ്ടങ്കിൽ ഒരു ചർച്ച തുടങ്ങു, ബഗ്ഗിട്ട് മാറ്റാം.--കിരൺ ഗോപി 13:53, 12 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Transwiki Import definition

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വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകളിൽ താഴെകാണുന്ന പദ്ധതികളെ ട്രാൻസ്‌വിക്കി ഇമ്പോർട്ട് സോഴ്സുകളായി നിർവചിക്കാൻ ബഗ്ഗ് ഫയൽ ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. എതിർപ്പില്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇവിടെ വോട്ട് രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.

--Vssun(സം‌വാദം) 06:03, 24 ജൂലൈ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

പ്രധാനതാളിന്റെ പുതിയ രൂപം

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ചൊല്ലുകളിലെ നിലവിലുള്ള പ്രധാനതാൾ വളരെ പഴയതാണ്, പല പുതിയകാര്യങ്ങളും പ്രധാന താളിൽ ഉൾക്കൊള്ളിക്കണമെന്ന് പല ഉപയോക്താക്കളും നിർദ്ദേശിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. പൂർത്തീകരിച്ച ഒരു പുതിയ പ്രധാന താളിന്റെ രൂപം ഇവിടെ കാണാം. എല്ലാവരുടെയും നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ അറിയിക്കുക. അതിനനുസരിച്ച് മാറ്റങ്ങൾ വരുത്താം. --കിരൺ ഗോപി 13:25, 24 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഒരു ചെറിയ മാറ്റം വരുത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഇനിയും മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്താനാകും എന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. --Anoopan(സം‌വാദം) 14:18, 24 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

പുതിയതായി ചേർത്ത ആണോ പുതുതായി ആണോ "കൂടുതൽ ശരി? പുതുതായി എന്നാണ് എനിക്ക് തോന്നുന്നത്. മഹദ്വചനങ്ങൾ പ്രശസ്തരുടെ മൊഴികൾ ആക്കുന്നതിനെക്കുറീച്ച് എന്തു പറയുന്നു?--Fuad(സം‌വാദം) 18:19, 24 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഉപതലക്കെട്ടുകൾക്ക് കീഴെയുള്ള വിലങ്ങൻ വരകൾ ഒഴിവാക്കിയാൽ നന്നായിരിക്കില്ലേ? --ജുനൈദ് Junaid 03:07, 25 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

പ്രധാന വർഗ്ഗങ്ങൾ മുകളിലാക്കിയാൽ കുറച്ചുകൂടി നന്നാവുകയില്ലേ?? നിലവിൽ അവയ്ക്ക് വലിയ പ്രാധാന്യം തോനുന്നില്ല. വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പോലെ സ്വാഗത ഫലകത്തിനൊപ്പം അത് നല്കിക്കൂടെ --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 05:46, 26 ഡിസംബർ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]


പ്രധാന താൾ മാറുന്നതിനൊപ്പം ലോഗോയു ഒന്ന് മലയാളവത്കരിച്ചുകൂടെ --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 06:08, 26 ഡിസംബർ 2010 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

പേര് മാറ്റി വിക്കിമൊഴി എന്നാക്കിയാലോ?

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വിക്കി ക്വാട്ട് (wikiquote) എന്നതാണ് ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലുള്ളത്. അതിനര്ഥം വിക്കി ഉദ്ദരണികൾ എന്നാണല്ലോ? അതുകൊണ്ട് തന്നെ അതിൽ വേദവാക്യങ്ങളായാലും പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലായാലും മഹദ്വചനമായാലും സ്പെയ്സുണ്ട്. എന്നാൽ വിക്കി ചൊല്ല് എന്ന് പേര് നമ്മൾ ഇവിടെ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് വിക്കി ഭാഷയിലില്ലാത്ത അർഥം കല്പിച്ച് വാക്കിനെ വലിച്ചു നീട്ടുകയല്ലെ ചെയ്യുന്നത്?. ചൊല്ല് എന്നതിൻറെ താല്പര്യം ചൊല്ലി പതിഞ്ഞതെന്നാണ്. അഥവാ നിരന്തരം വായ്താരിയായി പ്രചരിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നതാണ് ഭാഷയിൽ ചൊല്ല് എന്നാണ് ഞാൻ മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നത്. നാട്ടിലൊരു ചൊല്ലുണ്ട് എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാൽ അവിടെയുള്ള പഴയ ഗ്രന്ഥത്തിലൊരു വരിയുണ്ട് എന്നല്ല. ചൊല്ലിന് ഉദ്ദരണി എന്നർഥമില്ല. അഥവാ ചൊല്ല് വാമൊഴിയാണ് വരമൊഴിയല്ലെന്ന് ചുരുക്കം. ഇവിടെ ചൊല്ലിൽ കടംങ്കഥകളും നാട്ടു പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളും നാടൻ പാട്ടുകളുമെല്ലാം ശരിയാണ്. എന്നാൽ വേദവാക്യമോ മഹദ്വജനങ്ങളോ ആപ്തവാക്യമോ ചൊല്ലായികൊള്ളണമെന്നില്ല. മാത്രമല്ല ആപ്രയോഗത്തില് തന്നെ ഒരപാകതയുണ്ട്. കിരൺഗോപി നിർമ്മിച്ച പേജ് കാണുക.അതിൽ ഇന്നത്തെ മൊഴി, തെരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത മൊഴി എന്നെല്ലാമാണ് കാണുക. അഥവാ ഖുർആനിനെ ഒരു വാക്ക് കൊടുത്തിട്ട് അതിന് മുകളിൽ ഇന്നത്തെ ചൊല്ല് എന്ന് പറയുന്നത് തന്നെ ഒരു സുഖമില്ലല്ലോ. അതു കൊണ്ട് വാമൊഴിയും വരമൊഴിയും ചേരുന്ന മൊഴി യാവും (വിക്കിമൊഴി) ഇവിടെ ഉചിതമാവുകയെന്നതാണ് എന്റെ വിനീതമായ അഭിപ്രായം.നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായവും രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക.--Zuhairali(സം‌വാദം) 02:58, 12 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2011 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

അത് വേണോ ?

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ചൊല്ലുകൾ പഴയതായിരിക്കണമെന്ന് പറയുന്നതിനോട് സ്നേഹപൂർവ്വം വിയോജിക്കുന്നു സുഹൈർ. നിഘണ്ടുവിൽ നോക്കുക ഞാൻ തന്നെ ശബ്ദതാരാവലി നോക്കി ഇട്ടതാണ് :)ഉപദേശം മൊഴി എന്നെല്ലാം അർഥമുണ്ട് ചൊല്ലിനു. അതിനാൽ മഹദ്വചനങ്ങളും വേദ വാക്യങ്ങളും എല്ലാം പെടും. മാറ്റത്തിനുവേണ്ടി വിക്കിചൊല്ല് വിക്കിമൊഴി ആക്കണോ?--Fuad(സം‌വാദം) 13:50, 18 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2011 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

മഹദ്വചനങ്ങളെല്ലാം ചൊല്ലുകളാവണമെന്നില്ല. വാക്ക്, മൊഴി, കേൾവി എന്നെല്ലാമാണല്ലോ അതിനര്ഥം കാണുന്നത്. സംസാരത്തിലൂടെ പ്രചരിക്കുന്നതിനാണ് ഈ വാക്ക് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത്. ചൊല്ലിന്റെ അപരനാമമല്ല മൊഴി. ചൊല്ലും മൊഴിയിലുള്പ്പെടും എന്ന് മാത്രമാണ് താങ്കള് തന്ന ലിങ്കിലൂടെ മനസ്സിലാക്കാനാവുക. എന്നാല് ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങളില് മാത്രം വരമൊഴിയായി കിടക്കുന്ന ഉദ്ദരണികളുമിതില് വരുമല്ലോ. അത് കൊണ്ടാണ് വാമൊഴിയും വരമൊഴിയും ചേരുന്ന മൊഴി നിര്ദ്ദേശിച്ചത്. ഒന്നു കൂടി കൃത്യമായി പറഞ്ഞാല് ചൊല്ല്=മൊഴി, മൊഴി=ചൊല്ല്, ഉദ്ദരണി--സുഹൈറലി(സം‌വാദം) 07:16, 22 മാർച്ച് 2011 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
വിക്കിമൊഴി എന്ന പേരാണ് ഈ സംരഭത്തിന് കൂടുതൽ അനയോജ്യമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. കൂടുതൽ പേരുടെ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ ആരായണം. --Jairodz (സം‌വാദം) 08:33, 2 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
'വിക്കിവാങ്മയം' എന്നൊരു പേർ നിർദ്ദേശിച്ചിരുന്നു.--Thachan.makan (സം‌വാദം) 13:57, 3 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

കവിതകളെവിടെയാണ്

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വിക്കിയില് കവിതകളുടെ ഇടമെവിടെയാണ്. വിക്കിചൊല്ലില് തന്നെയാണോ? --സുഹൈറലി(സം‌വാദം) 07:19, 22 മാർച്ച് 2011 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

നാടൻ പാട്ടുകൾ പോലുള്ളവ വിക്കി ചൊല്ലിൽ തന്നെ വരണം. പകർപ്പവകാശം കഴിഞ്ഞ കവിതകൾ വിക്കി ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിലാണ് വരേണ്ടത്. --Anoopan(സം‌വാദം) 07:48, 24 മാർച്ച് 2011 (UTC)[മറുപടി]


വർഗ്ഗീകരണം

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ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനുമായി ഓരോ താൾ തുടങ്ങിയ ശേഷം (ഉള്ളടക്കം ഇല്ലെങ്കിൽ പോലും) അവയെ വർഗ്ഗീകരിച്ചാൽ നിലവിലുള്ളതിലും പെട്ടെന്ന് അവയെ കണ്ടെത്താൻ കഴിയും. പലയിടത്ത് ചേർക്കേണ്ട ബുദ്ധിമുട്ട് ഒഴിവാകുകയും ചെയ്യും ഉദാ: ആന മെലിഞ്ഞാൽ തൊഴുത്തിൽ കെട്ടാമോ എന്ന പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് 'അക്ഷരമാലാക്രമത്തിൽ' എന്ന താളിലും വിഷയക്രമത്തിൽ തന്നിരിക്കുന്ന താളിൽ 'ജീവികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ' എന്ന തലകെട്ടിലും വന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്. (അതായത് ഒരെണ്ണം പലയിടത്തായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചു) ഇതിനുപകരമായി പ്രസ്തുതതാളിൽ വർഗ്ഗം:ആ-ൽ തുടങ്ങുന്ന പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ, വർഗ്ഗം:ആനയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നീ വർഗ്ഗങ്ങൾ (കൃത്യമായ വർഗ്ഗവൃക്ഷം നിർമ്മിച്ച ശേഷം) ചേർത്താൽ എളുപ്പമല്ലേ. ഇത് കൂടുതൽ ചൊല്ലുകൾ വരുമ്പോൾ ക്രമീകരിക്കാനുള്ള ഇരട്ടിപ്പണി കുറയ്ക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും. എന്തു പറയുന്നു?. --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 16:04, 13 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

വർഗ്ഗം:ആ-ൽ തുടങ്ങുന്ന പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന വർഗ്ഗം വേനമെന്നില്ല, പകരം നിലവിൽ ശൈലികളിൽ ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളതുപോലെ ഒരോ അക്ഷരത്തിനും ഒരോ താളുണ്ടാക്കാം. അതുപോലെ ഇതും കാണുക. --കിരൺ ഗോപി 04:47, 16 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനുമായി ഓരോ താൾഎന്ന ആശയത്തോട് പണ്ടേ എതിർപ്പുള്ള വ്യക്തിയാണ് ഞാൻ. അനാവശ്യമായി താളുകളൂടെ എണ്ണത്തിൽ മേനി പറയാം എന്നല്ലാതെ ഗുണമില്ല. ഒരു ചൊല്ലിന്റെ അർഥം അറീയാൻ അത് ക്ലീക്ക് ചെയ്തു വേറൊരു ഒറ്റ വരി പേജ്ജ് നോക്കേണ്ട ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ? ആദ്യപേജ്ജീൽ തന്നെ ഒറ്റ വരി വിവരണം കൊടൂത്താൽ പോരെ?--Fuad(സം‌വാദം) 17:23, 30 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

അതെ വിവരണമില്ലങ്കിൽ തലക്കെട്ടുമാത്രമായി താളുകൾ വേണമെന്നില്ല എന്ന പക്ഷക്കാരനാണ് ഞാനും--കിരൺ ഗോപി 11:17, 3 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനും ഓരോ താൾ വേണ്ട എന്നതിനെ അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു. പല പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളുടെയും അർത്ഥം വിവരണം കൂടാതെ തന്നെ സ്പഷ്ടമാണ്. വിവരണം ആവശ്യമായവയുടേത് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന താളിൽ തന്നെ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിന് താഴെയായി കൊടുക്കാം. --Jairodz സം‌വാദം 09:45, 5 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

/ / പല പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളുടെയും അർത്ഥം വിവരണം കൂടാതെ തന്നെ സ്പഷ്ടമാണ് / /

പലതിന്റെയും അർത്ഥം നമ്മൾക്ക് സ്പഷ്ടമാണെന്നത് സമ്മതിക്കുന്നു. ഒരു പക്ഷേ അത് വായിക്കുന്നത് ഒരു നാലാം ക്ലാസ്സുകാരൻ ആണെങ്കിലോ? നമ്മൾ സ്പഷ്ടമെന്ന് ചെറുവിരൽ മടക്കി പറയുന്ന പലതും അവന് അങ്ങനെയാവണമെന്നില്ല. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പല നാടൻ വാക്കുകൾ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ചൊല്ലുകൾ വായിക്കുന്നത് ഒരു പരദേശിയായ മലയാളി കുട്ടിയാണെങ്കിലോ? ഈ ചിന്തയാണ് അവലംബിക്കുന്നതെങ്കിൽ നിഘണ്ടുവിലും മറ്റും ദിനംപ്രതി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന പല പദങ്ങളുടേയും അർത്ഥം നൽകേണ്ടതില്ലായിരുന്നുവല്ലോ?

/ / വിവരണം ആവശ്യമായവയുടേത് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന താളിൽ തന്നെ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിന് താഴെയായി കൊടുക്കാം./ /

മലയാളം ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ കാര്യത്തിൽ സമ്പന്നമാണ്. എന്റെ കയ്യിൽ തന്നെ പതിനായിരത്തിലധികം മലയാളം ചൊല്ലുകൾ ചേർത്തിരിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തകം ഉണ്ട്. ഇവ പതിനായിരവും വിക്കിയിലെത്തിയാലത്തെ അവസ്ഥയോ?(അങ്ങനെ സംഭവിക്കട്ടെയെന്ന് ആശിക്കുന്നു) പൂമുഖത്തു തന്നെ പതിനായിരം ചൊല്ലും അവയുടെ അർത്ഥവും പാഠഭേദവും മറ്റും ചേർന്ന് ആകെ കോലാഹലമാവും. പേജ് ലോഡാവാനെടുക്കുന്ന സമയനഷ്ടവും.

ചൊല്ലുകൾ അന്വേഷിച്ചു വരുന്നവർ പലപ്പോഴും വിഷയത്തിലധിഷ്ഠിതമായാവും വരിക. ഉദാ: ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ, കൃഷിയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ, ഓണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നിങ്ങനെ. അവയെ അങ്ങനെ തന്നെ വർഗ്ഗീകരിച്ച് പട്ടികപ്പെടുത്തണമെന്ന് ഞാൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ കിടക്കുന്ന പോലെ അരയും കോണകവുമില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥയിൽ കിടക്കും (വലിയൊരു പരിധിവരെ ഈയിടയ്ക്ക് മാറ്റം സംഭവിച്ചു വന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്) പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് ശേഖരിച്ച പുസ്തകങ്ങളും പൊതുവേ അത്തരമൊരു വർഗ്ഗീകരണ പ്രകൃയ പിന്തുടരുന്നതായ് കാണാം. (വിഷയാനുബന്ധമായോ അക്ഷരമാലാക്രമത്തിലോ മറ്റോ) ഇത് എളുപ്പമാകെണമെങ്കിൽ അവയ്ക്ക് താൾ നിർമ്മിച്ച് അവശ്യമായ വർഗ്ഗത്തിലുൾപ്പെടുത്തുക തന്നെ വേണം. ചൊല്ലു ചേർത്ത ശേഷം അടിയിൽ വിശദീകരണം ചേർക്കാനാണെങ്കിൽ അവ വരുന്ന പട്ടികയിലെല്ലാം അങ്ങിനെ ചെയ്യേണ്ടി വരും. (മുകളിൽ പറഞ്ഞ ഉദാഹരണം കാണുക) --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 09:30, 6 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

en:English proverbs കാണുക എങ്ങ്നിനെയാണ് ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന്, വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പോലെ അല്ല വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളിലെ താളുകളുടെ ക്രമീകരണം, ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ആണ് വേണ്ടതെങ്കിൽ ഞാറ്റുവേല എന്ന താൾ നിർമ്മിച്ച് അതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ആതാളിൽ ചേർക്കണം. കാക്കയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടചൊല്ലുകൾ കാക്ക എന്നതാൾ നിർമ്മിച്ചോ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പക്ഷികൾ എന്ന താളിന്റെയുള്ളിലോ ആണ് ചേർക്കേണ്ടത് ഒരു ഉദാഹരണം ഇവിടെക്കാണാം. ചൊല്ലുകളിലെ താളുകൾ വിഷയത്തിലധിഷ്ഠിതമായിത്തന്നെ വരണം. ഞാൻ ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത് അഖിലിന് മനസ്സിലായിക്കാണും എന്നു കരുതുന്നു. വർഗ്ഗം:തെലുങ്ക് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നത് ആവശ്യമില്ല, പകരം തെലുങ്ക് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന താളിൽ ഈ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയാൽ മതിയാകും--കിരൺ ഗോപി 05:38, 7 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ തിരക്കി വരുന്ന ബഹു ഭൂരിപക്ഷത്തിനും ചൊല്ലുകളാണ് വേണ്ടത്, അവയുടെ വ്യാഖ്യാനം പിമ്പേ മാത്രമാണ് വരിക. അവശ്യത്തിനു ഉള്ളടക്കം ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ എല്ലാ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളും കൂടി തെലുങ്ക് പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന ഒരൊറ്റ താളിൽ ചേർത്ത ചേർക്കുന്നതിലും നല്ലത് ഓരോന്നിനായും പ്രത്യേകം താൾ നിർമ്മിച്ച് അവശ്യമായ വിവരണം നല്കുന്നതല്ലേ? എന്തിനാണ് എല്ലാം കൂടെ ഒരിടത്തിട്ടടിക്കുന്നത്. പ്രത്യേകം വർഗ്ഗവൃക്ഷം നിർമ്മിക്കുന്നത് കൊണ്ട് എന്താണ് പ്രശ്നം? ഇത് ചൊല്ലുകളെ മികച്ച രീതിയിൽ അടുക്കിവയ്ക്കാനല്ലേ സഹായിക്കൂ. ഇത് ഭാവിയിലെ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ എളുപ്പമാക്കാനല്ലേ സഹായിക്കൂ? താൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കാനുള്ള വിഷമമാണെങ്കിൽ എല്ലാം കൂടി പൂമുഖത്താളിൽ ചേർത്താൽ പോരേ? പുതിയൊരു പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് ചേർത്താൽ അത് അതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ഓരോ താളിലും ചേർക്കുന്നതിലും (ഉദാ: ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഓണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ...) എത്രയോ എളുപ്പമാണ് അവയിൽ പ്രസ്തുത വർഗ്ഗം ചേർത്ത് മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുന്നത്. ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് വിക്കിയേയും മലയാളം വിക്കിയേയും താരതമ്യപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനോട് എനിക്ക് യോജിപ്പില്ല. en:Birds എന്ന താളിൽ കാണുന്ന അത്രയും ചൊല്ലുകൾ ശേഖരിക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങിയാൽ മലയാളത്തിൽ കാക്കയെക്കുറിച്ച് മാത്രം കാണും. പിന്നെ {{ഉള്ളടക്കം}} ഒരു താളിൽ തത്കാലത്തേക്കാണ് ചേർക്കുന്നത്. ഉള്ളടക്കമാകാത്ത താളിനെ വർഗ്ഗം:ഉള്ളടക്കം ഇല്ലാത്ത താളുകൾ എന്ന താൾ മുഖാന്തരം എളുപ്പം ലഭ്യമാകുവാൻ മാത്രം. ഒറ്റ ദിവസം കൊണ്ട് എല്ലാ താളിലും ഉള്ളടക്കം ചേർക്കാൻ എനിക്ക് കഴിയുകയില്ല. അത് വരിക്ക് ചെയ്ത് വരുമ്പോൾ എളുപ്പം പൂർത്തിയാക്കാനുള്ള താളുകൾ കണ്ടെത്താനുള്ള ഒരു ഉപാധിയെന്ന് മാത്രമാണ് ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത്. അതിന്റെ ആവശ്യമില്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒഴിവാക്കാം. --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 18:06, 10 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
മുൻപ് വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്താണന്ന് അറിയാത്ത കാലത്താണ് നമ്മൾ ഒരോ ചൊല്ലുകൾക്കും ഒരോ താൾ തുടങ്ങിയിരുന്നത്, അങ്ങനെയുള്ളവയെല്ലാം മാറ്റേണ്ടതാണ്. എല്ലാതാളുകളും പൂമുഖ താളിൽ ചേർത്താൽ പോരെ എന്നുള്ള ചോദ്യം ബാലിശമല്ലേ? ഒരു വിഷയത്തെ അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കിയുള്ള ചൊല്ലുകൾ സൂക്ഷിക്കാനാണ് വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ അത് മികച്ച രീതിയിൽ വർഗ്ഗീകരിക്കുകയും വേണം പക്ഷെ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ പോലെ അല്ല ചെറിയ ചിലമാറ്റങ്ങളുണ്ട് എന്ന് മാത്രം. ഞാറ്റുവേലയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഓണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഇവ യഥാക്രമം ഞാറ്റുവേല, ഓണം അവയുടെ താളുകളിലാണ് ചേർക്കേണ്ടത്. ചില ഉദാഹരണങ്ങൾ നോക്കൂ പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ, സ്ത്രീ, കുട്ടികൾ--കിരൺ ഗോപി 05:30, 13 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

മുകളിഉൽ നടന്ന ചർച്ചകളുടെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ വർഗ്ഗം:ജീവികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നതാളിലെ വിവരങ്ങൾ അതാത് ജീവികളുടെ പേരിൽ ഒരു താൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കി അതിലേക്ക് ലയിപ്പിക്കാം എന്നു കരുതുന്നു.--കിരൺ ഗോപി 04:18, 28 മാർച്ച് 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

അനുകൂലം. ജീവികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ മാത്രമല്ല മറ്റു വർഗ്ഗങ്ങളും കഴിവതും വികേന്ദ്രീകരിച്ച് മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തണമെന്ന് അഭിപ്രായപ്പെടുന്നു --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 13:08, 3 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ --> വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ

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ഈ സംരഭത്തിന്റെ പേര് വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നതിൽ നിന്ന് വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നാക്കി മാറ്റണമെന്ന് അഭിപ്രായപ്പെടുന്നു. നിലവിലുള്ള എല്ലാ മലയാളം വിക്കിസംരഭങ്ങളുടെയും (വിക്കിപീഡിയ, വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല, വിക്കിനിഘണ്ടു, വിക്കിപാഠശാല) പേരിൽ വിക്കി എന്ന വാക്ക് രണ്ടാമത്തെ വാക്കിനോട് ചേർത്താണ് എഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഇതിന് മാത്രം ഇടയ്ക്ക് സ്പേസ് ഇടേണ്ട ആവശ്യമുണ്ടെന്ന് കരുതുന്നില്ല. --Jairodz സം‌വാദം 03:02, 21 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് ബഹുവചനം ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ? വിക്കിചൊല്ല് എന്ന് മാത്രം പോരെ?--കിരൺ ഗോപി 03:06, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നാണ് നല്ലത്. ബഹുവചനം വേണം. --Vssun(സം‌വാദം) 06:47, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
സംരംഭത്തിന്റെ വിലാസം നോക്കു ml.wikiquote എന്നല്ലെ. അവിടേയും ഏകവചനം തന്നെയല്ലെ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് കാണുന്നത്.--കിരൺ ഗോപി 07:24, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ബഹുവചനം നിലനിർത്തണം എന്നാണ് എന്റേയും അഭിപ്രായം. ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ ശേഖരമല്ലേ ? ചൊല്ലിന്റെ അല്ലല്ലോ ! വിക്കി കൂട്ടിയോജിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് ആലോചിക്കാവതാണ്. --Fuad(സം‌വാദം) 17:26, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ബഹുവചനം ഒഴിവാകിയാൽ നെയിംസ്പേസിൽ നിന്ന് ചില്ലക്ഷരം ഒഴിവാക്കാൻ പറ്റും. മറ്റ് മലയാള സംഭരഭങ്ങളും നോക്കു അവയും ഏകവചനം തന്നെ, വിക്കിപീഡിയ, വിക്കിഗ്രന്ഥശാല, വിക്ഷ്ണറി, പാഠശാല ഇവിടെയെല്ലാം തന്നെ ഏകവചനമാണ് പിന്നെ ചൊല്ലുകൾക്ക് മാത്രം ബഹുവചനം എന്തിന്?--കിരൺ ഗോപി 11:34, 11 മേയ് 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
ചില്ലക്ഷരം ഒഴിവാക്കാനായി വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന പേര് മാറ്റണമെന്ന അഭിപ്രായത്തോട് ശക്തമായി വിയോജിക്കുന്നു. മറ്റ് മലയാളം സംരംഭങ്ങൾ ഏകവചനമാണെന്ന് സമ്മതിക്കുന്നു. വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ (എൻസൈക്ലോപീഡിയ എന്ന വാക്ക് ആസ്പദമാക്കിയാൽ) ഒട്ടനവധി ലേഖനങ്ങൾ കാണാം. ഒരു ഗ്രന്ഥശാലയിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ കാണാം. ഒരു നിഘണ്ടുവിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി വാക്കുകളുടെ നിർവചനവും മറ്റും കാണാം. ഒരു പാഠശാലയിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി പഠനസഹായികൾ കാണാം. അതിനാൽ അവയെല്ലാം ഏകവചനം മതിയാകും. അപ്രകാരമുള്ള ഒരു തലക്കെട്ടല്ല വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾക്കുള്ളത്. ഇത് തീർച്ചയായും ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ സഞ്ചയമാണ്. അതിനാൽ പേര് വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നുതന്നെ വേണം. ഇടയിലെ സ്പേസ് മാറ്റുന്നതിനോടും അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 07:52, 2 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന് തന്നെ മതി എന്നാണ് എന്റേയും അഭിപ്രായം. --Jairodz സം‌വാദം 08:34, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്നാക്കി മാറ്റാമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. ഇതിനായുള്ള അടുത്ത നടപടി എന്താണ്? --Jairodz(സം‌വാദം) 02:47, 1 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ബഗ് ഫയൽ ചെയ്തു.--കിരൺ ഗോപി 06:43, 2 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ചെയ്തു കഴിഞ്ഞു ലോഗോയും കൂടി മലയാളത്തിൽ ആക്കിയാൽ നന്നായിരുന്നു. :-) --Jairodz(സം‌വാദം) 04:19, 12 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

കടങ്കഥകൾ

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കടങ്കഥകൾ ചേർക്കുന്നതിനു ഒരു മാനകം ഉണ്ടാകുന്നതിനു വേണ്ടിയാണ് ഈ സംവാദം. നിലവിൽ കടങ്കഥകൾ എന്ന താളിൽ അക്ഷരമാലാ ക്രമത്തിൽ കടങ്കഥകൾ ചേർത്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. അവ വിഷയാസ്പദമായും ചേർക്കാം. അവയിൽ കുറേയെണ്ണത്തിനു പ്രത്യേകമായി താൾ തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു വരിയുള്ള ഉത്തരത്തിനു വേണ്ടി പുതിയൊരു താൾ തുടങ്ങേണ്ട ആവശ്യമുണ്ടോ? അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മുൻപ് പറഞ്ഞ പോലെ ഒരേ ഉത്തരം വരുന്ന കടങ്കഥകളെല്ലാം ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരേ താളിൽ നൽകിയാൽ പോരെ? --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 08:19, 2 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഒരോ കടങ്കഥയ്ക്കും ഓരോ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലിനും പ്രത്യേക താൾ തുടങ്ങേണ്ട ആവശ്യമില്ല. വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ ആകെ ഒന്ന് വൃത്തിയാക്കിയെടുക്കേണ്ടതായുണ്ട്. --Jairodz സം‌വാദം 03:29, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ധൈര്യമായി കൈവയ്ക്കൂ ജയ്‌ദീപ്, താങ്കളുടെ അഭിപ്രായം പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കൂ. ഒരു നയം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയ ശേഷം നമുക്കൊരുമിച്ച് കൈവയ്ക്കാം. --അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 08:39, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

സന്തോഷം ഇപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും കടങ്കഥയിൽ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചു തുടങ്ങിയല്ലോ ....ഒരേ ഉത്തരം വരുന്ന കടങ്കഥകളെല്ലാം ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരേ താളിൽ നൽകുകയോ അകാരാദിക്രമത്തിൽ കടങ്കഥകൾ നൽകിയശേഷം ഒരേ ഉത്തരം വരുന്നവക്കെല്ലാം കൂടി ഒരു താളിൽ ഉത്തരമെഴുതി ലിങ്ക് നൽകിയാലും മതിയാവില്ലേ Tonynirappathu(സം‌വാദം) 13:13, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

കടങ്കഥകൾ അകാരാദിയേക്കാളും വിഷയാസ്പദമായി ക്രമീകരിക്കുന്നതാവും നല്ലതെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. (മറ്റേത് വേണ്ടന്നല്ല) ഇക്കാര്യത്തിൽ മലയാളം വിക്കിമീഡിയൻ കൂടിയായ വി. എം. രാജ്‌മോഹൻ സാർ എഴുതിയ ഒരു കടങ്കഥ പുസ്തകത്തെ ആധാരമാക്കാം എന്ന് കരുതുന്നു. അതായത് ജീവനുള്ളവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ, ജീവനില്ലാത്തവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ, മറ്റുള്ളവ എന്നിങ്ങനെ. ഇനി ജീവനുള്ളവയിൽ സസ്യങ്ങളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ എന്നും ജന്തുക്കളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവയെന്നും (മറ്റുള്ളവ യഥാവിധി - മനോധർമ്മം) ജന്തുക്കളിൽ ആനയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടവ എല്ലാം ഒരേ തലക്കെട്ടിൽ ( അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഒരേ താളിൽ) ഈ വിധത്തിൽ--അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 16:13, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

അങ്ങനെ ക്രമീകരിക്കുന്നത് നല്ലതു തന്നെ. കടങ്കഥയുടെ ഉത്തരം എങ്ങനെയാവും നൽകുക അതേ താളിൽ തന്നെയാണോ ?ഒരോ കടങ്കഥയുടെ ഉത്തരത്തിനും പ്രത്യേക താൾ വേണം എന്ന ചിന്തയാണ് എനിക്കുള്ളത്. ഭാവനയും യുക്തിയും ചേർത്ത് തയാറാക്കുന്ന കടങ്കഥ ഇന്നത്തെ കുട്ടികൾക്ക് മനസ്സിലാകണമെങ്കിൽ വിശദീകരണം കൂടിയേ തീരു.(പല വസ്തുക്കളും അവർ കണ്ടിട്ടുകൂടിയില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥയിൽ) ഇപ്പോൾ ഒരു വാക്ക് മാത്രമുള്ള താളുകളിൽ വിശദീകരണവും വിക്കിപീഢിയയിലേക്ക് ലിങ്കും നൽകുന്നതല്ലേ ഉചിതം Tonynirappathu(സം‌വാദം) 16:33, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

അഖിലൻ പറഞ്ഞ കാര്യങ്ങൾ വർഗ്ഗം കൊണ്ട് ചെയ്യാനാകുന്നതാണ്. എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായത്തിൽ, കടങ്കഥ ഉത്തരത്തിന്റെ അടിസ്ഥാനത്തിൽ താളുകളുണ്ടാക്കി, മുകളിൽപ്പറഞ്ഞരീതിയിൽ വർഗ്ഗീകരിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും നല്ലത്. കടങ്കഥകൾക്ക് നെയിംസ്പേസ് വേണോ എന്ന കാര്യവും ചർച്ചചെയ്യാവുന്നതാണ്. --Vssun(സം‌വാദം) 16:36, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
float ടോണീ. അപ്രകാരം തന്നെ മുൻപോട്ട് പോകുന്നതാണ് നല്ലതെന്ന് എനിക്ക് തോനുന്നു. അതെ ആന എന്ന് ഉത്തരം വരുന്ന കടങ്കഥകളുടെ എല്ലാം കണ്ണി ആന എന്ന താളിലേക്ക് നൽകാം.--അഖിലൻ(സം‌വാദം) 16:37, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

സാങ്കതിക കാര്യങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് ഞാൻ അജ്ഞനാണ് . ഏതായാലും വരും ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ കുറെ കടങ്കഥകൾ കൂട്ടിച്ചേർത്തേക്കാംTonynirappathu(സം‌വാദം) 16:49, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

.. ഒറ്റ വരി പേജുകൾ ഒഴിവാക്കാൻ ആവുന്നതെല്ലാം ചെയുക. കടങ്കഥകൾ ഉൾപ്പെടെ. --Fuad(സം‌വാദം) 17:43, 3 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

മുകളിലെ സംവാദത്തിൽ വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളുടെ ഉള്ളടക്കം ഏത് രീതിയിലാണ് എന്ന് വിശദീകരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഒരോ കടങ്കഥകൾക്ക് പ്രത്യേകം താളിന്റെ ആവശ്യമില്ല. നിലവിൽ ശൈലികൾ, പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ ഇവ ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നതുപോലെയാണ് കടങ്കഥകളും ക്രമീകരിക്കേണ്ടത്.--കിരൺ ഗോപി 14:15, 6 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ചൊല്ല് തുടങ്ങുക

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ഇപ്പോൾ നിലവിൽ സൈഡ്ബാറിൽ കൊടുത്തിട്ടുള്ള "ചൊല്ല് തുടങ്ങുക" എന്ന കണ്ണി ആശയക്കുഴപ്പമുണ്ടാക്കുന്നതല്ലേ? ഓരോ ചൊല്ലിനും പ്രത്യേകതാൾ ആവശ്യമില്ല എന്നതല്ലേ നിലവിൽ സ്വീകരിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള നയം. ആ സ്ഥിതിക്ക് "ലേഖനം തുടങ്ങുക" (അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മറ്റെന്തെങ്കിലും വാക്ക്) എന്ന് ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതല്ലേ നല്ലത്? --Jairodz (സം‌വാദം) 18:53, 28 നവംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ചിഹ്നം

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വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾക്കായി മലയാളത്തിലെഴുതിയ ചിഹ്നം നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നു.

  1. നിലവിൽ ചെരിച്ചെഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത് നേരെയാക്കണമെന്ന അഭിപ്രായം കിട്ടിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.
  2. കലാപരമായ ചിഹ്നങ്ങൾ ആർക്കെങ്കിലും നിർദ്ദേശിക്കാമോ

--Vssun (സം‌വാദം) 09:22, 30 നവംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ഫോണ്ട് രചന തന്നെയാണ് കട്ടി കൂട്ടാൻ പുറകിൽ ഒരു ലെയർ കൂടിയുണ്ട്. ഒന്ന് സ്ട്രെച്ച് ചെയ്തിട്ടുമുണ്ട്. കലാപരം എന്നുദ്ദേശിച്ചത്, ടെക്സ്റ്റ് പ്രത്യേകതരത്തിൽ വരച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയോ മറ്റോ. --Vssun (സം‌വാദം) 11:16, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ചെരിവ് ഒഴിവാക്കി. --Vssun (സം‌വാദം) 11:33, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
  • സംവാദം പേര് ഒന്നുകൂടി തീർച്ചപ്പെടുത്തിയ ശേഷം ലോഗോ സ്വീകരിച്ചാൽ പോരേ? ബഹുവചനത്തെ എതിർത്ത് മെയിലിങ് ലിസ്റ്റിൽ രണ്ട് അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ വന്നല്ലോ. മാത്രമല്ല കഴിഞ്ഞ ചർച്ചയിൽ അധികം പേർ പങ്കെടുത്തതുമില്ല. സുഹൈറലി നിർദ്ദേശിച്ച വിക്കിമൊഴി എന്ന പേരിനോടാണ് എനിക്കിപ്പോൾ കൂടുതൽ യോജിപ്പ്. വിക്കി ചൊല്ലുകൾ എന്ന ആദ്യമായി പേര് സ്വീകരിക്കാനുള്ള ചർച്ച നടന്നതെവിടെയാണ്? --Jairodz (സം‌വാദം) 07:36, 2 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
  • സംവാദം - കാത്തിരിക്കുന്നതിൽ അർത്ഥമൊന്നുമില്ല. ഒരിക്കൽ ചിഹ്നം കസ്റ്റമൈസ് ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടാൽ, അത് മാറ്റുക എന്നത് പദ്ധതിയുടെ പേര് മാറ്റുന്നതിനേക്കാൾ എളുപ്പമാണ്. --Vssun (സം‌വാദം) 15:39, 4 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]
  • അനുകൂലിക്കുന്നു ചിഹ്നം എളുപ്പത്തിൽ മാറ്റാമെങ്കിൽ കുഴപ്പമില്ല. :-) വിക്കിപാഠശാലയുടെ ചിഹ്നം കൂടി ലോക്കലൈസ് ചെയ്യാമോ? മലയാളം വിക്കിയുടെ പത്താം വാർഷികത്തിനു മുൻപുതന്നെ മലയാളീകരിച്ച എല്ലാ ചിഹ്നങ്ങളും നിലവിൽ വന്നാൽ നന്നായിരുന്നു. --Jairodz (സം‌വാദം) 15:50, 4 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ബഗ് കാണുക --Vssun (സം‌വാദം) 13:20, 6 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

ചെയ്തു കഴിഞ്ഞു --Vssun (സം‌വാദം) 15:25, 13 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

സബ്പേജ്

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വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകളിൽ ലേഖനനാമമേഖലയിൽ സബ്പേജ് feature enable ചെയ്താൽ നന്നായിരിക്കും. പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകൾ, ശൈലികൾ, ന്യായനിഘണ്ടു തുടങ്ങിയവയിൽ ഉപയോഗപ്രദമായിരിക്കും. --Jairodz (സം‌വാദം) 07:23, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2012 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions

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On June 11, 2013, the Universal Language Selector (ULS) will replace the features of Mediawiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. The ULS provides a flexible way of configuring and delivering language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings).

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Runab 14:09, 5 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC) (posted via Global message delivery)[മറുപടി]

Global AbuseFilter

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Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:34, 14 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Columns for references

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Hello,

At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.

I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 24 July 2017. After that date, use the normal <references /> tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead: <references responsive="0" />

If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references. User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:17, 23 ജൂലൈ 2017 (UTC)

സുപ്രധാനം: കാര്യനിർവാഹക പ്രവൃത്തികളുടെ സംശോധനം

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Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

  1. Fuadaj (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, علاء (സം‌വാദം) 11:47, 8 ജനുവരി 2020 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Invitation to participate in the UCoC conversation

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Hello. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Please help translate to your language. നന്ദി!

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 верасня 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [1]
  • 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. [2]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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).
  • Advanced item 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. [3]

Future changes

  • The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "ചർച്ചാ ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [4]
  • Advanced item 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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18:32, 20 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

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This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

  • Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
  • Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
  • Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).

Best, RamzyM (WMF) 02:46, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2021-39

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

Recent changes

  • 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

  • Advanced item 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. [5]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [6]
  • 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

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22:22, 27 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40

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

Recent changes

  • 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

  • Recurrent item 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).
  • Advanced item 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. [8]
  • 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. [9]
  • Advanced item 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. [10]
  • Advanced item 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. [11]

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16:31, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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).

Meetings

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15:30, 11 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

മൂവ്മെന്റ് ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റിയിലെ അംഗങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനുള്ള വോട

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മൂവ്മെന്റ് ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റിയിലെ അംഗങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനുള്ള വോട്ടിംഗ് ഇപ്പോൾ തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു. ആകെ, ലോകമെമ്പാടും നിന്നുള്ള 70 വിക്കിമീഡിയന്മാർ 7 സീറ്റുകളിലേക്കാണ് ഈ തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിൽ മത്സരിക്കുന്നത്.

വോട്ടിംഗ് ഒക്ടോബർ 12 മുതൽ ഒക്ടോബർ 24, 2021 വരെ (ഭൂമിയിൽ എവിടെയും) തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു.

സമിതിയിൽ ആകെ 15 അംഗങ്ങൾ ആണ് ഉണ്ടാവുക: ഓൺലൈൻ കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റികൾ 7 അംഗങ്ങൾക്ക് വോട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നു, 6 അംഗങ്ങളെ വിക്കിമീഡിയ അഫിലിയേറ്റുകൾ സമാന്തര പ്രക്രിയയിലൂടെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കും, കൂടാതെ 2 അംഗങ്ങളെ വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ നിയമിക്കും. 2021 നവംബർ 1-നകം കമ്മിറ്റിയെ കൂട്ടിച്ചേർക്കാനാണ് പദ്ധതി.

നിങ്ങൾ ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്ന ഭാഷയിൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ വോട്ട് അറിയിക്കാൻ ഓരോ സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥിയെയും കുറിച്ച് അറിയുക: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റിയെക്കുറിച്ച് അറിയുക: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

ഈ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനായി ഞങ്ങൾ ഒരു വോട്ടിംഗ് ഉപദേശ ആപ്ലിക്കേഷൻ പൈലറ്റ് ചെയ്യുന്നു. ടൂളിലൂടെ സ്വയം ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക, ഏത് സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥിയാണ് നിങ്ങളോട് ഏറ്റവും അടുത്തതെന്ന് നിങ്ങൾക്ക് കാണാം! ഇവിടെ പരിശോധിക്കുക: <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

മുഴുവൻ അറിയിപ്പും വായിക്കുക: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

സെക്യൂർപോളിൽ വോട്ട് ചെയ്യുക: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

ആശംസകളോടെ,

മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവേണൻസ് ടീം, വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ


05:54, 13 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

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

Recent changes

  • 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

  • Recurrent item 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)

താങ്കളുടെ മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി പ്ലാനുകളെ മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി ഇംപ്ലിമെന്റേഷൻ ഗ്രാന്റുകൾക്ക് എങ്ങനെ പിന്തുണയ്ക്കാമെന്ന് അറിയുക

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മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി ഇംപ്ലിമെന്റേഷൻ ഗ്രാന്റുകൾ ഇപ്പോൾ $2,000 USD-ൽ കൂടുതൽ തുക പദ്ധതികൾ ആസൂത്രണം ചെയ്യുന്നത്തിന് നൽകുന്നു. മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി ഇംപ്ലിമെന്റേഷൻ ഗ്രാന്റുകൾ, മാനദണ്ഡങ്ങൾ, എങ്ങനെ അപേക്ഷിക്കാം എന്നിവയെക്കുറിച്ച് കൂടുതൽ കണ്ടെത്തുക MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 09:01, 24 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2021-43

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [12]
  • 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. [13]

Meetings

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20:08, 25 ഒക്ടോബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [14]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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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20:28, 1 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

പുതിയ പ്രസ്ഥാന ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റി അംഗങ്ങളെ കണ്ടുമുട്ടൂ

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പ്രസ്ഥാന ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് കമ്മിറ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പും സെലക്ഷൻ പ്രക്രിയകളും പൂർത്തിയായിരിക്കുന്നു.

സമിതിയുടെ പ്രവർത്തനം ഉടൻ ആരംഭിക്കും. വൈവിധ്യവും വൈദഗ്ധ്യവും തമ്മിലുള്ള വിടവുകൾ നികത്താൻ സമിതിക്ക് മൂന്ന് അംഗങ്ങളെ കൂടി നിയമിക്കാനാകും.

പ്രസ്ഥാന ചാർട്ടർ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിംഗ് പ്രക്രിയയിൽ ഏർപ്പെടാൻ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് താൽപ്പര്യമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ, മെറ്റയിലെ അപ്‌ഡേറ്റുകൾ പിന്തുടർന്ന് ടെലിഗ്രാം ഗ്രൂപ്പിൽ ചേരുക

നന്ദിയോടെ പ്രസ്ഥാന സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവേണൻസ് ടീം.
RamzyM (WMF) 02:37, 2 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2021-45

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [15][16]

Changes later this week

Future changes

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20:36, 8 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

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

Recent changes

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. [18]
  • There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [19]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

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Changes later this week

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20:02, 22 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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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21:15, 29 നവംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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

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

  • Recurrent item 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.
  • Advanced item 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. [20]
  • Advanced item 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. [21]

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21:59, 6 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [22]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

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

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. [23]

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.
  • Advanced item 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. [24]

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22:05, 20 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

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The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

  • What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
  • What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msg(_AT_)wikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Thank you. Xeno (WMF) 17:39, 27 ഡിസംബർ 2021 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

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You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 13:15, 9 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-02

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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)

ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഫീഡ്‌ബാക്കിനായുള്ള കോൾ ഇപ്പോൾ തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു

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മെറ്റാ-വിക്കിയിൽ ഈ സന്ദേശം കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകളിലേക്ക് വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യപ്പെടുന്നത് കാണാം.
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ഫീഡ്‌ബാക്കിനായുള്ള കോൾ: ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് ഇപ്പോൾ തുറന്നിരിക്കുന്നു, 2022 ഫെബ്രുവരി 7-ന് അവസാനിക്കും.

ഫീഡ്‌ബാക്കിനായുള്ള ഈ കോളിലൂടെ, മൂവ്‌മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവേണൻസ് ടീം വ്യത്യസ്തമായ ഒരു സമീപനം സ്വീകരിക്കുകയാണ്. ഈ സമീപനം 2021 മുതലുള്ള കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റി ഫീഡ്‌ബാക്ക് ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്നു. നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങളുമായി നയിക്കുന്നതിനുപകരം, ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റിയിൽ നിന്നുള്ള പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങളെ ചുറ്റിപ്പറ്റിയാണ് കോൾ രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. 2021ലെ ബോർഡ് ഓഫ് ട്രസ്റ്റി തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഫീഡ്‌ബാക്കിൽ നിന്നാണ് പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ വന്നത്. ഈ പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് കൂട്ടായ സംഭാഷണത്തിനും സഹകരണ നിർദ്ദേശ വികസനത്തിനും പ്രചോദനം നൽകുക എന്നതാണ് ഉദ്ദേശ്യം.

സംഭാഷണത്തിൽ ചേരുക.

ആശംസകളോടെ,

മൂവ്മെന്റ് സ്ട്രാറ്റജി & ഗവർണൻസ് CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 06:02, 13 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-03

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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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19:55, 17 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories

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Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikഫലകം:@wikimedia.org.

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

  • Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
  • Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
  • Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
  • The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
  • Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:25, 19 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-04

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [34]

Events

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21:38, 24 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

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

Recent changes

  • 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). [35]

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

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17:42, 31 ജനുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [36]

Problems

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)

[Announcement] Leadership Development Task Force

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Dear community members,

The Invest in Skill and Leadership Development Movement Strategy recommendation indicates that our movement needs a globally coordinated effort to succeed in leadership development.

The Community Development team is supporting the creation of a global and community-driven m:Leadership Development Task Force (Purpose & Structure). The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team seeks community feedback on what could be the responsibilities of the task force. Also, if any community member wishes to be a part of the 12-member task force, kindly reach out to us. The feedback period is until 25 February 2022.

Where to share feedback?

#1 Interested community members can add their thoughts on the Discussion page.

#2 Interested community members can join a regional discussion on 18 February, Friday through Google Meet.

Date & Time

Thanks for your time.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 12:09, 9 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-07

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [37]

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).
  • Advanced item 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. [38]

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19:18, 14 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [39]
  • 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. [40]
  • 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]]. [41]
  • 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

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. [42][43]
  • 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. [44]
  • 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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19:12, 21 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 04:50, 22 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines & Ratification Vote

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In brief: the revised Enforcement Guidelines have been published. Voting to ratify the guidelines will happen from 7 March to 21 March 2022. Community members can participate in the discussion with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Details:

The m:Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations. The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022.

What’s next?

#1 Community Conversations

To help to understand the guidelines, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will host conversations with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page. You can comment in any language.

#2 Ratification Voting

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process where eligible voters can support or oppose the adoption of the enforcement guidelines through vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information.

A SecurePoll vote is scheduled from 7 March to 21 March 2022.

Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the UCoC based on the proposed guidelines.

Thank you. CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 15:43, 22 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-09

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [45]
  • 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. [46][47]
  • 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. [48]

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)

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed

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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.

This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.

Thank you,

Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:08, 5 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-10

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

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. [49]

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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21:16, 7 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

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International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating

A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on Catalan Wikipedia project page.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 14:40, 14 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-11

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [50][51]

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. [52]

Changes later this week

Future changes

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

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

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

Future changes

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16:01, 21 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

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Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language.

You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Best regards,

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 10:00, 23 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-13

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

Recent changes

  • 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). [60][61]

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19:54, 28 മാർച്ച് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14

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

Problems

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

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21:01, 4 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship Applications

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Dear Wikimedians, we are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the main Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The event will take place in Hyderabad. The regional event will be in-person with support for virtual participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen on this page.

In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship application by 17 April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas of the Wikimedia movement. Please post on the event talk page if you have any queries. MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 18:31, 7 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-15

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [64][65]

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)

Join the South Asia / ESEAP Annual Plan Meeting with Maryana Iskander

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Dear community members,

In continuation of Maryana Iskander's listening tour, the Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan.

The conversations are about these questions:

  • The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
  • The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. How can we improve?
  • Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. We want to know about your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

Date and Time

The meeting will happen via Zoom on 24 April (Sunday) at 07:00 UTC (local time). Kindly add the event to your calendar. Live interpretation will be available for some languages.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 09:56, 17 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-16

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

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. [66]
  • 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

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23:11, 18 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [71][72]

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. [73]

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22:56, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)

Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election

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Dear community members,

The 2022 Board of Trustees elections process has begun. The Call for Candidates has been announced.

The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.

Kindly submit your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees. CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:42, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election

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Dear community members,

The 2022 Board of Trustees elections process has begun. The Call for Candidates has been announced.

The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.

Kindly submit your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees. CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:52, 29 ഏപ്രിൽ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-18

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [74][75]

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

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19:33, 2 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [80]
  • 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. [81]

Changes later this week

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)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers

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The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

  • Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
  • Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

  • Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
  • Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 10:17, 12 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers

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The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

  • Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
  • Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

  • Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
  • Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 10:42, 12 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-20

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

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. [83]
  • 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. [84]

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18:58, 16 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

Recent changes

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [85]
  • The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [86]

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. [87]
  • 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. [88]

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. [89]

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00:21, 24 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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

Recent changes

  • Advanced item 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. [90]
  • 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. [91][92]
  • Advanced item 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. [93]
  • 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. [94]

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20:28, 30 മേയ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23

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

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. [95]

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02:46, 7 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

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

Recent changes

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). [98]
  • 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. [99]
  • 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. [100][101]

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

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [102]
  • 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. [103]

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. [104]

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. [105]

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20:18, 20 ജൂൺ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-26

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

Recent changes

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). [106]
  • 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. [107]
  • Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [108]

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

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

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. [109]

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19:32, 4 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

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

Recent changes

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

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19:24, 11 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

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Hi all,

Community members are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

  • July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
  • July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
  • July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
  • August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
  • August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
  • August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.

Regards,

Movement Strategy & Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:02, 12 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

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Hi all,

Community members are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

  • July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
  • July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
  • July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
  • August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
  • August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
  • August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.

Regards,

Movement Strategy & Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:13, 12 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-29

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

Problems

  • The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [112]

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

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22:59, 18 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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

Recent changes

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). [114]

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. [115]
  • Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "ഉപയോക്താവിനെ പുനഃസ്ഥാപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു" instead of just "ഉപയോക്താവിനെ തടയുക" if the user is already blocked. [116]

Future meetings

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19:27, 25 ജൂലൈ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

Future 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

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

Recent changes

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

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19:49, 8 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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

Recent changes

  • 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

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21:08, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [121][122]

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. [123]

Future changes

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00:12, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)

WikiConference India 2023: Initial conversations

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Dear Wikimedians,

Hope all of you are doing well. We are glad to inform you to restart the conversation to host the next WikiConference India 2023 after WCI 2020 which was not conducted due to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, it couldn't take place. However, we are hoping to reinitiate this discussion and for that we need your involvement, suggestions and support to help organize a much needed conference in February-March of 2023.

The proposed 2023 conference will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and hopes together. This conference will provide a national-level platform for Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on its own- in the end it will empower us all to strategize, plan ahead and collaborate- as a movement.

We hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in various capacities and make this a reality. We believe we will take learnings from earlier attempts, improve processes & use best practices in conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully.

Here is a survey form to get your responses on the same notion. Unfortunately we are working with short timelines since the final date of proposal submission is 5 September. We request you please fill out the form by 28th August. After your responses, we can decide if we have the community need and support for the conference. You are also encouraged to add your support on this page, if you support the idea.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, 06:39, 24 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open

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Dear community members,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

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CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 12:19, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open

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Dear community members,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

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Movement Strategy and Governance

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CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 12:33, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-35

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

Recent changes

Problems

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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23:05, 29 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2022 (UTC)


The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close

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Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 12:39, 1 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close

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The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 12:57, 1 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-36

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

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. [126][127]

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23:22, 5 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37

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

Recent changes

  • The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [128]

Changes later this week

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01:49, 13 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)

WikiConference India 2023: Proposal to WMF

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Hello everyone,

We are happy to inform you that we have submitted the Conference & Event Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2023 to the Wikimedia Foundation. We kindly request all the community members to go through the proposal -- including the community engagement survey report, program plan, venue and logistics, participation and scholarships, and the budget, and provide us with your suggestions/comments on the talk page. You can endorse the proposal in the endorsements section, please do add a rationale for supporting this project.

According to the timeline of the Conference and Event Grants program, the community can review till 23 September 2022, post that we will start integrating all the received feedback to make modifications to the proposal. Depending on the response of community members, an IRC may be hosted next week, especially if there are any questions/concerns that need to be addressed.

We reopened the survey form and if you are still interested in taking part in the survey and you have something in mind to share or want to become a part of the organizing team, please fill out the form so we all can work together.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, 07:35, 19 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-38

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [130][131]

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. [132][133]

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 22:16, 19 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

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The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

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

About the skin

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[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?

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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

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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.

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 gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 04:15, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-39

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

Recent changes

  • 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. [134]
  • 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. [135] [136]
  • In the ഘടകം namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the ഉപയോക്താവ് and മീഡിയവിക്കി namespaces. [137]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 27 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-40

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

Recent changes

  • Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [138] [139]
  • The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
  • 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. (Last week's release was delayed) [140] [141]
  • The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:23, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-41

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
  • On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [142][143]

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14:08, 10 ഒക്ടോബർ 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42

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

Recent changes

  • The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [144]
  • A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
  • Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [145]
  • Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [146]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:46, 17 ഒക്ടോബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-43

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

Recent changes

  • There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
  • On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

  • Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [148]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (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 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [149]
  • Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [150][151][152]
  • Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:22, 24 ഒക്ടോബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-44

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

Recent changes

  • When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [154]
  • In പ്രത്യേകം:സമീപകാലമാറ്റങ്ങൾ, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [155]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
  • The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [156]
  • It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [157]
  • It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [158]
  • It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [159]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:15, 31 ഒക്ടോബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-45

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Recent changes

Problems

  • Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:32, 8 നവംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-46

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
  • There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [163]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:54, 14 നവംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-47

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Recent changes

  • The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

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 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21, 21 നവംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-48

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

Recent changes

  • A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [165]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (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 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [166][167][168]
  • On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [169]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:03, 28 നവംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-49

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [171][172]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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Tech News: 2022-50

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
  • The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [175]

Events

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:34, 12 ഡിസംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

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Hello

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

  • Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
  • Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
  • Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
  • Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

നന്ദി! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 16:44, 15 ഡിസംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

  • On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [176]
  • A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [177]
  • One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [178]

Problems

  • Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [179]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
  • The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the ചർച്ചാ ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [180] [181]

Future changes

  • Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പ കൈകാര്യം system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [182]
  • The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
  • Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:00, 20 ഡിസംബർ 2022 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Hello all,

In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.

The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.

The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.

How to vote?

Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.

Who can vote?

The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.

What happens after the vote?

Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 10:29, 8 ജനുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-02

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

Recent changes

  • You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [183]
  • Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
  • You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [184]
  • A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [185]
  • Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [186]
  • You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [187]

Changes later this week

  • Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:07, 10 ജനുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-03

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

Problems

  • The URLs in "അവസാനത്തെ" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [188]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
  • Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on സംവാദം: and ഉപയോക്താവിന്റെ സംവാദം: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ സംവാദം:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including വിക്കിചൊല്ലുകൾ: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [189]
  • On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [190]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:10, 17 ജനുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Voting Opens on the Revised Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines

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Hello all,

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will remain open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.

For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 12:16, 17 ജനുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-04

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

Problems

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [191]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
  • If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [192][193]
  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 23 ജനുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-05

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

Problems

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [194]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:05, 31 ജനുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-06

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

Recent changes

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [195]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
  • Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [196]
  • Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [197]
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

  • Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:21, 6 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

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Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-07

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

Problems

  • On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [198]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
  • The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [199]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [200][201][202]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:48, 14 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-08

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Problems

  • Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [203]

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [204][205][206]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:57, 21 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

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Hello community members,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

  • Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct.
  • Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
  • Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing.
  • Bringing the Terms of Use in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Wikimedia Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held: the first on 2 March and the second on 4 April.

For further information, please consult:

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

CSinha (WMF) (സം‌വാദം) 08:09, 22 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ അവരുടെ ദ്വിതീയ ഡാറ്റാ സെന്റർ പരീക്ഷിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. ഒരു ദുരന്തം സംഭവിച്ചാൽ വിക്കിപീഡിയക്കും അനുബന്ധ വിക്കികൾക്കും ഓൺലൈനിൽ തുടരുവാൻ സാധിക്കും എന്നത് ഉറപ്പുവരുത്താൻ വേണ്ടിയാണ് ഈ പരീക്ഷണം നടത്തുന്നത്. എല്ലാം പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്ന് ഉറപ്പാക്കാൻ, വിക്കിമീഡിയ ടെക്നോളജി വിഭാഗത്തിന് ആസൂത്രിതമായ ഒരു പരിശോധന നടത്തേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. ഒരു ഡാറ്റാ സെന്ററിൽ നിന്ന് മറ്റൊന്നിലേക്ക് വിശ്വസനീയമായി മാറാൻ കഴിയുമോ എന്ന് ഈ പരിശോധന തെളിയിക്കും. പരീക്ഷണങ്ങൾക്ക് തയ്യാറെടുക്കുന്നതിനും അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമായി എന്തെങ്കിലും പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായാൽ പരിഹരിക്കുന്നതിനും നിരവധി ടീമുകൾ ആവശ്യമാണ്.

1 മാർച്ച് അവർ എല്ലാ ട്രാഫിക്കും ദ്വിതീയ ഡാറ്റാ സെന്ററിലേക്ക് മാറ്റും. പരീക്ഷണം 14:00 UTC (7:30 PM IST) ന് ആരംഭിക്കും

നിർഭാഗ്യവശാൽ, മീഡിയവിക്കിയിലുള്ള ചില പരിമിതികൾ മൂലം, എല്ലാ തിരുത്തലുകളും ഈ മാറ്റങ്ങളുടെ സമയത്ത് നിർത്തേണ്ടതാണ്. ഈ തടസ്സത്തിന് ഞങ്ങൾ ക്ഷമ ചോദിക്കുന്നു, ഭാവിയിൽ ഇത് കുറയ്ക്കുന്നതിന് ഞങ്ങൾ പ്രവർത്തിക്കും.

നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഈ സമയത്ത് എല്ലാ വിക്കികളും വായിക്കാൻ കഴിയും, പക്ഷേ എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല.

  • ബുധൻ 1 മാർച്ച് 2023 നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഒരു മണിക്കൂർ നേരത്തേക്ക് എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല.
  • ഈ സമയങ്ങളിൽ നിങ്ങൾ എഡിറ്റുചെയ്യാനോ മറ്റോ ശ്രമിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ, നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഒരു പിശക് സന്ദേശം കാണാം. ഈ മിനിറ്റുകളിൽ ഒരു എഡിറ്റുകളും നഷ്‌ടപ്പെടില്ലെന്ന് ഞങ്ങൾ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു, പക്ഷേ ഞങ്ങൾക്ക് ഇത് ഉറപ്പ് നൽകാൻ കഴിയില്ല. നിങ്ങൾക്ക്‌ പിഴവ് സന്ദേശം ലഭിച്ചാൽ എല്ലാം പഴയത് പോലാകുന്നത് വരെ കാത്തിരിക്കുക. അതിനു ശേഷം നിങ്ങളുടെ എഡിറ്റുകൾ സേവ് ചെയ്യുവാൻ കഴിയും. പക്ഷേ, നിങ്ങളുടെ മാറ്റങ്ങളുടെ ഒരു പകർപ്പ് ആദ്യം നിർമ്മിക്കാൻ ഞങ്ങൾ ശുപാർശ ചെയ്യുന്നു.

മറ്റു ഫലങ്ങൾ:

  • പശ്ചാത്തല പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ മന്ദഗതിയിലാകും, ചിലത് ഉപേക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടാം. ചുവന്ന ലിങ്കുകൾ സാധാരണപോലെ അപ്‌ഡേറ്റ് ചെയ്യപ്പെടില്ല. നിങ്ങൾ മറ്റെവിടെയെങ്കിലും ഇതിനകം ലിങ്ക് ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ള ഒരു ലേഖനം സൃഷ്ടിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ, സാധാരണയുള്ളതിനേക്കാളും നേരം ആ കണ്ണി ചുവന്നുകിടക്കും. ദീർഘകാലമായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന ചില സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റുകൾ നിർത്തേണ്ടിവരും.
  • We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
  • GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
ആവശ്യമെങ്കിൽ ഈ പ്രോജക്റ്റ് മാറ്റിവച്ചേക്കാം. ഇതിന്റെ ഷെഡ്യൂൾ wikitech.wikimedia.orgൽ ലഭ്യമാണ്. എന്തെങ്കിലും മാറ്റമുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ ഷെഡ്യൂളിൽ പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും. ഇതിനെക്കുറിച്ച് ഇനിയും അറിയിപ്പുകൾ ഉണ്ടാവും. ഈ പ്രവർത്തനം നടക്കുന്നതിന് 30 മിനിറ്റ് മുമ്പ് എല്ലാ വിക്കികളിലും ഒരു ബാനർ പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കും. ദയവു ചെയ്തു ഈ വിവരം നിങ്ങളുടെ സമൂഹത്തെ അറിയിക്കുക.

Trizek (WMF) (സംവാദം) 21:21, 27 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-09

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

Problems

  • Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [207][208]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [209]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 27 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-10

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

Recent changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
  • On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [210]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
  • A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [211]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:49, 6 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

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Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Tech News: 2023-11

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [212][213]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 13 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-12

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

Problems

  • Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [214]

Changes later this week

Meetings

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 21 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-13

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

Recent changes

  • The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [216]
  • Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [217]
  • Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the വരിക്കാരാവുക link in the ഉപകരണങ്ങൾ menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [218]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:13, 28 മാർച്ച് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-14

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

Recent changes

  • The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [221][222][223][224][225]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
  • Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [226]
  • The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [227]
  • Some of the links in പ്രത്യേകം:പ്രത്യേകതാളുകൾ will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [228]
  • You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [229][230][231]

Future changes

  • The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 3 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-15

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [234]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [235][236]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:05, 10 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-16

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [240][241]
  • For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [242]

Changes later this week

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:54, 18 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-17

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [244]
  • For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [245][246][247]

Changes later this week

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [248]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:03, 24 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

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കൂടുതൽ ഭാഷകൾ • Please help translate to your language

Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

  • Community members in good standing
  • Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
  • Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
  • Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
  • Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
  • Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 19:01, 26 ഏപ്രിൽ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-18

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:45, 2 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-19

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like w:de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [257]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
  • Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [258]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:36, 9 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

  • Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [263]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [264]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:45, 15 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-21

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [267]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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16:55, 22 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

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The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, 04:21, 27 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [270]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [271]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:03, 29 മേയ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-23

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

Recent changes

  • The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
  • Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [272]
  • Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "ഫലങ്ങൾ താളനുസരിച്ച് ഗണങ്ങളാക്കുക". This has now been fixed. [273]

Problems

  • For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [274]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [275]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:51, 5 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-24

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

Recent changes

  • The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [276]
  • The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [277]
  • The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [278]
  • The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [279]

Problems

  • For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [280]
  • Currently, the "ഈ താൾ സ്വതേ ഇങ്ങനെ ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തുക" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [281]
  • Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [282]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [283]

Future changes

  • From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:51, 12 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-25

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

Recent changes

  • Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [284][285]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [286][287]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:08, 19 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-26

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

Recent changes

  • The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [288]

Problems

  • Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [289][290]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
  • The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [291][292]
  • Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [293]
  • All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [294]
  • The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [295]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:18, 26 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

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Hello there,

We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:00, 28 ജൂൺ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-27

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:51, 3 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-28

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

Recent changes

  • The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
  • Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [299]
  • പ്രത്യേകം:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [300]
  • The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [303]
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:53, 10 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-29

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
  • MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [304]
  • The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [305]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 17 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-30

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:20, 25 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-31

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [309]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
  • Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [310]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:54, 31 ജൂലൈ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-32

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Recent changes

  • Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [311]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:20, 7 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-33

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

Recent changes

  • The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [312]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [313]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:59, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-34

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

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15:25, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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

Recent changes

  • As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [324]
  • All പ്രത്യേകം:സംഭാവനകൾ pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [325]
  • Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [326]
  • Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "തിരുത്തൽ" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലുള്ള സൗകര്യങ്ങൾ" tab at some wikis. The preference "വ്യത്യസ്തമായ വിക്കിഎഴുത്ത് തിരുത്തൽ സൗകര്യത്തിന് പകരം, കണ്ടുതിരുത്തൽ സൗകര്യത്തിനുള്ളിൽ ഉള്ള വിക്കിഎഴുത്ത് രീതി ഉപയോഗിക്കുക." is now also shown on the "തിരുത്തൽ" tab at all wikis, instead of the "പരീക്ഷണാടിസ്ഥാനത്തിലുള്ള സൗകര്യങ്ങൾ" tab. [327][328]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
  • New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
  • All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [329]

Future changes

  • The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
  • A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:00, 28 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-36

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [334]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [335][336]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:33, 4 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-37

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

Recent changes

  • ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [337]
  • When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [338]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
  • The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
  • As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [339]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [340]
  • The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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Tech News: 2023-38

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [343]
  • All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [344]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:19, 18 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-39

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

Recent changes

  • The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [345]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
  • The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
  • Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

  • New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [346][347]

Meetings

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:51, 26 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-40

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

Recent changes

  • There is a new user preference for "എല്ലായ്‌പ്പോഴും സേഫ് മോഡ് പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമാക്കുക". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [348]
  • Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:26, 3 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and Invitation to Participate

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Dear Wikimedians,

The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group is happy to announce Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 on 16-17 December 2023 in Pondicherry, India.

The event is for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia’s technical spaces code developers, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other related technical aspects. Along with that, contributors who don't necessarily contribute to technical spaces but have good understanding of issues on wikis and can work with developers in addressing them can join too. You can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create something new with others. The goal of this event is to bring together technical contributors from India to resolve pending technical issues, bugs, brainstorm on tooling ideas, and foster connections between contributors.

We have scholarships to support participation of contributors residing in India. The scholarship form can be filled at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_Qqctj7I87QfYt5imc6iPcGPWuPfncCOyAd_OMbGiqxzxhQ/viewform?usp=sf_link and will close at 23:59 hrs on 15 October 2023 (Sunday) [IST].

Please reach out to contactഫലകം:@indicmediawikidev.org if you have any questions or need support.

Best, Indic MediaWiki Developers UG, 04:40, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-41

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [351]
  • At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [352]
  • In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:39, 9 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==

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Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 9 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-42

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

Recent changes

  • The Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [353]
  • Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

01:13, 17 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

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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.

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If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

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

About the skin

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Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

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

  • The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
  • 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 jump 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 tested wikis.
  • 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.

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

Our plan

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If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (സംവാദം) 23:51, 18 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-43

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

Recent changes

  • There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
  • Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [354]

Changes later this week

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:16, 23 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-44

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many 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. [355][356]
  • Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [357]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21, 30 ഒക്ടോബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-45

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

Recent changes

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [358]

Problems

  • Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [359]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
  • The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [360][361]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:05, 6 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-46

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [366]
  • Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [367]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
  • Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [368]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 13 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-47

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

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [369][370]
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [371][372][373]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [374]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:55, 21 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-48

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [375][376]
  • MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [377]
  • The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 27 നവംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-49

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

Recent changes

  • The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [378]
  • The "ഈ താൾ സ്വതേ ഇങ്ങനെ ക്രമപ്പെടുത്തുക" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [379]

Changes later this week

Future changes

Events

  • Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 4 ഡിസംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-50

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

Recent changes

  • On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [383][384]

Problems

  • There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [385][386]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [387][388]

Future changes

  • The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:12, 12 ഡിസംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2023-51

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

Tech News

  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [389][390]
  • Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [391]
  • There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from പ്രത്യേകം:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [392]

Future changes

  • The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
  • The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 18 ഡിസംബർ 2023 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-02

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

Recent changes

  • mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
  • The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [393]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [394][395]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:19, 9 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-03

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

Recent changes

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [396]
  • Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [397]
  • Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [398]
  • You can now thank edits made by bots. [399]
  • An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [400][401]
  • Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [402]
  • The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [403]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 16 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through 2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:08, 19 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-04

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

Problems

  • A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [404]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [405][406]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 23 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-05

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

Recent changes

  • Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [407]
  • There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [408][409]
  • On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new പ്രത്യേകം:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [410]
  • Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [411]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:32, 29 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on 2 February 2024. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 17:00, 31 ജനുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-06

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

Recent changes

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
  • On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [412][413]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [414][415]
  • Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [416]

Future changes

  • 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [417][418]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:22, 5 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Dear all,

Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:24, 12 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-07

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

Recent changes

  • The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [419][420][421] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [422][423]

Problems

  • There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [424][425]
  • As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[426] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [427]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:48, 13 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-08

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

Recent changes

  • If you have the "ഞാൻ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്ന താളുകൾക്കോ പ്രമാണങ്ങൾക്കോ മാറ്റം സംഭവിച്ചാൽ എനിക്കു ഇമെയിൽ അയക്കുക" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [428]
  • There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
  • Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
  • The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [429]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [430][431]
  • Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
  • The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [432]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:36, 19 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-09

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

Recent changes

  • The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [433]
  • The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [434]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [435][436]

Future changes

  • The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:23, 26 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-10

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

Recent changes

  • The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [437]
  • Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
  • Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
  • Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [438]
  • A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [439]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [440][441]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [442]
  • The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:47, 4 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available

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Hello all,

I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 5 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-11

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [443][444]
  • After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [445]
  • The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [446]
  • Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [447]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [448][449]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04, 11 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

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Dear all,

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

  • May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
  • June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
  • June-August 2024: Campaign period
  • End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
  • October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
  • Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.

Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.

MPossoupe_(WMF)19:57, 12 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-12

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

Recent changes

  • The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [450]
  • IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [451]
  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [452][453][454]
  • Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [455]

Problems

  • RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [456]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [457][458]
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [459][460]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:39, 18 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-13

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

Recent changes

  • An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [461][462]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56, 25 മാർച്ച് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-14

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

Recent changes

  • Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [463]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [464][465]

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:36, 2 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-15

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

Recent changes

  • Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
  • A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
  • Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [466][467]
  • Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [468]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [469][470]
  • New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [471]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 8 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-16

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Problems

  • Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [472][473]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [474][475]
  • Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [476]
  • A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [477]

Future changes

  • Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
  • Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [478]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:29, 15 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-17

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [480][481]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:28, 22 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Vote now to select members of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:20, 25 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Recent changes

Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

Problems

  • Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [492]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [493][494]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 30 ഏപ്രിൽ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Recent changes

Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [495][496]
  • Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [497]
  • Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [498]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [499][500]
  • When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [501]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:44, 6 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-20

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

Recent changes

  • On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [503]
  • If you use the user-preference "പേജ് വീണ്ടും ലോഡുചെയ്യാതെ പ്രിവ്യൂ കാണിക്കുക", then the template-page feature "ഈ ഫലകം ഉപയോഗിച്ച് താൾ എങ്ങനെയുണ്ടെന്ന് കാണുക" will now also work without reloading the page. [504]
  • Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [505]
  • The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [506]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [507][508]
  • The പ്രത്യേകം:അന്വേഷണം results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [509]

Future changes

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [510]
  • Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
    1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
    2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 13 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

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Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 21:22, 14 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-21

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

Recent changes

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [513]
  • New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [514][515]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [516][517]
  • The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04, 20 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:25, 22 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-22

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

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [518][519]
  • When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [520]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:15, 28 മേയ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

  • North America (USA and Canada)
    • –
  • Northern and Western Europe
  • Latin America and Caribbean
    • –
  • Central and East Europe (CEE)
    • —
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • –
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • South Asia
    • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:15, 3 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-23

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

Recent changes

  • It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [521]
  • The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [522]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [523]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [524][525]

Future changes

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:34, 3 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-24

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

Recent changes

  • The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [526]
  • The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
  • The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [527]

Problems

  • There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [528]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [529][530]
  • The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [531]
  • On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [532]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:20, 10 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the Meta talk page or email the MCDC at mcdc@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:45, 11 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-25

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

Recent changes

  • People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [533]
  • The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [534][535]
  • The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [536]

Problems

  • Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [537]
  • Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [538]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [539][540]
  • Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [541]
  • Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [542]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 17 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-26

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

Recent changes

  • Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [543]
  • The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [544]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [546][547]
  • Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [548]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 24 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:52, 25 ജൂൺ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-27

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

Recent changes

  • Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [549]
  • Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [550]
  • If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [551][552]
  • Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [553]
  • Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [554]

Problems

  • Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [555]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 1 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:47, 8 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-28

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

Recent changes

Problems

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

Future changes

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:31, 8 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:03, 10 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-29

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

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Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • Advanced item Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [556]
  • Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:31, 16 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 17:53, 18 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-30

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

Feature News

  • Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [557]
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [558]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [559]

Project Updates

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

Learn more

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04, 23 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:47, 27 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-31

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

Feature news

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

Bugs status

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

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [560]

Learn more

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:10, 29 ജൂലൈ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-32

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Feature news

  • Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [561][562]
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

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

Learn more

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43, 5 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 6 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-33

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Feature news

Project updates

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21, 12 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [565]
  • Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [566][567]

Bugs status

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

Project updates

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

Learn more

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 20 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

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Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 23:20, 22 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

  • Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [568]

Bugs status

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

Project updates

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

Learn more

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:33, 26 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

  • North America (USA and Canada)
    • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

  • Latin America and Caribbean
  • Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Asia
  • The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 14:06, 2 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

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

Feature news

  • Editors who use the പ്രത്യേകം:ഉപയോഗിക്കാത്തഫലകങ്ങൾ page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [569]
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [570]
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

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

Learn more

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:07, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!

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Hello all,

The voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.

Learn more about the candidates by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote. The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 12:15, 3 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-37

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

Feature news

  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [572][573]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [574]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [575]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [576]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:52, 9 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-38

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

Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated പ്രത്യേകം:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [577]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [578]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [579]
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [580]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [581]

Tech in depth

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 17 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-39

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
  • Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  • Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [582]
  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [583][584]
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

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

In depth

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:36, 23 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-40

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

Updates for editors

  • Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [585]
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [586]
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

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

In depth

  • The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [587]

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 30 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-41

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

Weekly highlight

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [588]

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [590]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [591]
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:42, 7 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

  1. Christel Steigenberger
  2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
  3. Victoria Doronina
  4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group


MPossoupe_(WMF) 08:26, 14 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-42

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

Updates for editors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [597][598]
  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [599]
  • View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [600]
  • Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [601]
  • Advanced item Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [602]

In depth

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 14 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23:08, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 & scholarship applications

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Dear Wikimedians,

We hope you are well.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024, hosted by the Indic MediaWiki Developers UG (aka Indic-TechCom) in collaboration with the Odia Wikimedians UG. The event will take place in Bhubaneswar during 20-22 December 2024.

Wikimedia hackathons are spaces for developers, designers, content editors, and other community stakeholders to collaborate on building technical solutions that help improve the experience of contributors and consumers of Wikimedia projects. The event is intended for:

  • Technical contributors active in the Wikimedia technical ecosystem, which includes developers, maintainers (admins/interface admins), translators, designers, researchers, documentation writers etc.
  • Content contributors having in-depth understanding of technical issues in their home Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc.
  • Contributors to any other FOSS community or have participated in Wikimedia events in the past, and would like to get started with contributing to Wikimedia technical spaces.

We encourage you to follow the essential details & updates on Meta-Wiki regarding this event.

Event Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackathon_Bhubaneswar_2024

Scholarship application form: Click here to apply

(Scholarships are available to assist with your attendance, covering travel, accommodation, food, and related expenses.)

Please read the application guidance on the Meta-Wiki page before applying.

The scholarship application is open until the end of the day 2 November 2024 (Saturday).

If you have any questions, concerns or need any support with the application, please start a discussion on the event talk page or reach out to us contact@indicmediawikidev.org via email.

Best,

MediaWiki message delivery (സം‌വാദം) 09:35, 19 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-43

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

  • Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
  • Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
  • View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [603][604][605][606][607]
  • It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "21 November 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [608][609]
  • Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [610]
  • The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [611]

In depth

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

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:52, 21 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-44

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

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [613]
  • Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [614]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:56, 28 ഒക്ടോബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-45

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

Updates for editors

  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [615]
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [616]
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [617]

In depth

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

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:50, 4 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-46

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

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [620]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

  • Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [621]

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:07, 12 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Tech News: 2024-47

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

Updates for editors

  • Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [622]
  • View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [623]

Updates for technical contributors

  • On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [624][625]

In depth

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

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:00, 19 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC

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Hello everyone,

The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.

This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.

Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers, Srishti 19:54, 21 നവംബർ 2024 (UTC)[മറുപടി]

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