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Tech News: 2025-04
[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.
Updates for editors
- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [1]
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [2]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [3]
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:33, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-05
[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.
Weekly highlight
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [4]- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [5]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [6]- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_historydump, theanonymousfield will be renamed tois_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [7]
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:11, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-06
[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.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [8]
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[9] You can now also insert
<code>tags using a new toolbar button.[10] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.jsonto include entries forpreprint,standard, anddataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID,identifier,repository,organization,repositoryLocation,committee, andversionNumber. [11]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:) [12] - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [13]
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:05, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
Ukrainian flags
[edit]Can you take a look at this Graphics Lab post? I need your help to replace the old bitmap flags with the new svg ones. The only thing is that the File:Flags of Petrove.png is outdated and needs to be replaced with the new File:Flag of Krasnosillia (Kropyvnytskyi Raion).svg. Thanks in advance Feitidede☆ﾟ.* 01:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
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- User:Feitidede, are you asking for global replace of the old PNG files with the new SVG files? If so, I can help, but please spell it out exactly what you want. The easiest for me if you fill bunch of
{{universal replace|old image|new image|reason=give reason here}}commands for me to cut and paste. --Jarekt (talk) 02:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)- Yes the old png files need to be replaced with their respective vectored counterparts.
- Here you go:
- {{universal replace|Flag of Petrove (2001-2016).png|Flag of Petrove.svg|reason=Outdated flag replaced in 2016}}
- {{universal replace|Golovkivka oleks prapor.png|Flag of Holovkivka (Kirovohrad Oblast).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}
- {{universal replace|Dmitrovka zn prapor.png|Flag of Dmytrivka (Kropyvnytskyi Raion).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}
- {{universal replace|Krasnosilya ol prapor.png|Flag of Krasnosillia (Kropyvnytskyi Raion).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}
- {{universal replace|Novogrigor myl prapor.png|Flag of Novohryhorivka (Novoukrainka Raion).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}
- {{universal replace|Chervonokamenka pos prapor.png|Flag of Chervona Kamianka.svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}
Feitidede☆ﾟ.* 02:43, 6 February 2025 (UTC)- User:Feitidede, I sent the request yesturday to User:CommonsDelinker/commands. But it is still not finished. --Jarekt (talk) 13:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
Can probably be removed from these 3,474 images Multichill (talk) 20:58, 6 February 2025 (UTC)