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Tech News: 2024-25
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- 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. [1]
- 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. [2][3]
- 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. [4]
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [5]- 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. [6]
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). [7][8]- 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. [9]
- 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. [10]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-26
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- 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. [11]
- 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. [12]
Problems
- You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [13]
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). [14][15]
- 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. [16]
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:29, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Photo Challenge Results
[edit]Hello!
I noticed that you are in charge of (or at least you are used to) publishing the monthly photo challenge results. For the April one, I tried to count myself the votes to publish them myself, as they were not available yet (that's not a reproach). But, because I wasn't sure how to do it, I didn't publish them : I don't want to do any mistakes. Now that they are published (thank you!), I have some questions, because I don't get the same results as you.
- I get 218 images, what is your 219th? I noticed that a file was deleted, is that it?
Thank you, Wikisquack (talk) 14:20, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Moreover, I get only 95 contributers, not 96. Wikisquack (talk) 20:14, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Wikisquack Sorry I was not around last few days. Please see Commons:Photo_challenge/Maintainers_Manual#Convert_Submitting_page_to_Voting_page to read how the results are tabulated. Basically there is a C# code you run on your computer and it does all the tabulating for you, which is very consistent from challenge to challenge. However if you are getting different results than there might be bugs in the code. --Jarekt (talk) 14:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. I was using my own python code, so maybe there are some differences. I will take a look! Wikisquack (talk) 19:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Wikisquack I think it would be great if we had a python code which could run on https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ and could either create voting pages or count voting results the way current C# code does. That would allow much wider group of users to help with administration of Photo challenge. --Jarekt (talk) 21:41, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. I was using my own python code, so maybe there are some differences. I will take a look! Wikisquack (talk) 19:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Wikisquack Sorry I was not around last few days. Please see Commons:Photo_challenge/Maintainers_Manual#Convert_Submitting_page_to_Voting_page to read how the results are tabulated. Basically there is a C# code you run on your computer and it does all the tabulating for you, which is very consistent from challenge to challenge. However if you are getting different results than there might be bugs in the code. --Jarekt (talk) 14:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi Jarekt. I hope this finds you well. Please could you help me find the original largest upload picture for this file? Until yesterday it was on en.WP under the same name. Being dated 1953, it had lost its UK copyright, and I tried to transfer it to Commons, but the transfer-to-Commons system refused on the grounds of a hidden something-or-other. So I manually transferred the file to Commons. That manual transfer caused the loss of the file history, the original upload being 2010. Since that 2010 upload to en.WP, bots had reduced the size of the uploaded image. Now that the image is out of copyright, I would like to reinstate the original image size, but I cannot find the original scanned file on my PC. Is there any way for you to find and reinstate that first-uploaded larger version of the file? Apologies for the long explanation. Storye book (talk) 09:15, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Storye book, I found and uploaded larger version at https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/5e/48/3a5e480912874cbc8314426caa092021.jpg. An admin on En.wiki should be able to see the original upload on Wikipedia. --Jarekt (talk) 12:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Wow! thank you so much. I think its always worthwhile doing stuff for our railway buffs on WP. They are always appreciative of new additions in that subject, and they contribute so much for us, also. So thank you again. Storye book (talk) 16:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-27
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- 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. [17]
- 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. [18]
- 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. [19][20]
- 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. [21]
- 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:) [22]
Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [23]
Future changes
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Getting back to User_talk:Jarekt/2024#QuickStatements in Template:Information
[edit]Sorry, it took me so long to get back to this topic. I've read your response, and from it, I determine that this is fully scoped to template processing, with no external dependencies by other tools that interact with this generated HTML ? In that case, can we please at least mark it with a class, so that this information can be filtered out by Wikimedia when needed ? Example:
<div class="TagQS" style="display: none;">artist QS:P170,Q3155497</div>
Preferably, the information should be in a data attribute, so that the HTML evaluates to not having any textual contents at all:
<span data-TagQS="artist QS:P170,Q3155497"></span>
Using display:none to hide content is an anti-pattern, because it is only visually hiding it and the information still ends up in search engine descriptions, Wikimedia search and sometimes the Wikimedia Mediaviewer as something like: "1887date QS:P571,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9" which is an issue i'd really like to get rid of. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:58, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- @TheDJ: Thanks for replying, and some good timing as I was just thinking about changing the the format of those tags per request from User:Verdy p at Module talk:TagQS. You are correct that those tags do not interact with other tools (that I know of). They are created by lua modules using Module:TagQS and possibly some templates and are read by other lua modules. I like your suggestion of
<span data-TagQS="artist QS:P170,Q3155497"></span>or maybe<span data-TagQS="artist QS:P170,Q3155497"/>. Verdy_p suggestion was almost the same. I will start working on this. --Jarekt (talk) 22:27, 4 July 2024 (UTC) - I suggested using "bdi" instead of "span" to avoid any inclusion problems (with a demo). verdy_p (talk) 04:42, 5 July 2024 (UTC)