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Tech News: 2024-49
[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
- Two new parser functions were added this week. The
{{#interwikilink}}function adds an interwiki link and the{{#interlanguagelink}}function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning withMOS:on English Wikipedia conflict with themoslanguage code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia. - Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [1]
- Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [2]
- This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.
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Tech News: 2024-50
[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
- Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.
Updates for editors
- Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
- The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the
<page-collection> </page-collection>tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [4] - The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [5]
- The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively,
archiveUrlandarchiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [6] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (
voy:id:) [7] - Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [8]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [9][10]
Updates for technical contributors
- Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [11]
- Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
- The 2024 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 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12]
Meetings and events
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.
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The Signpost: 12 December 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5
- Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited
- Op-ed: On the backrooms by Tamzin
- In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial
- Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody
Tech News: 2024-51
[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
- Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.
Updates for editors
- Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
- Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
- The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
Updates for technical contributors
- There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [13]
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Comscore
[edit]I see you added the comscore source in Pushpa 2. Where do you get 1416 crore as worldwide gross figure mentioned in the source? If not, you can not use this source. How did you come to conclusion that it is globally reliable source? Did you get consensus on WP:RSN or WP:ICTFSOURCES? Has there been any consensus on this source on any platform in wikipedia that you can point me to? RangersRus (talk) 18:24, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, couldn't find any... I assumed it would be because it's an American well-reputed site according to its Wikipedia page, Maybe I was wrong. And, they are about 15 pages in English Wikipedia citing ComScore as a source. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 02:51, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
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New Task forces at WikiProject Cricket
[edit]- Following the discussion took place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket, set of new task forces have been created and has been added to the WikiProject banner as well.
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January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive
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The Signpost: 24 December 2024
[edit]- From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
- Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
I have sent you a note about a page you started
[edit]Hi Vestrian24Bio. Thank you for your work on 2025 ICC Champions Trophy group stage. Another editor, DoctorWhoFan91, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
I have redirected it for now, you can recreate it around the time it starts.
To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|DoctorWhoFan91}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)
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Your GA nomination of 2024 Men's T20 World Cup
[edit]The article 2024 Men's T20 World Cup you nominated as a good article has failed 
; see Talk:2024 Men's T20 World Cup for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vkwiki100 -- Vkwiki100 (talk) 14:02, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your contributions. Please note the 2021 RM at Talk:ICC World Cup Qualifier. The consensus was "not moved", and therefore none of these articles can be moved without discussion.
I had undone some of these pagemoves yesterday, but I see that some have been moved again today. I urge you to use WP:RM if you wish to move any of these articles, and respect the community consensus. 162 etc. (talk) 19:19, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Also note that none of these articles were explicitly named in the RM discussions at Talk:2027 Cricket World Cup. The outcome of those discussions affects only the nominated articles. 162 etc. (talk) 19:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- @162 etc.: Should I go ahead start a new RM then? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:38, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Prod tags
[edit]Hi Vestrian24Bio! Just to clarify something - no one needs to be accused of "keep[ing] removing the tag" in relation to WP:PROD, on the grounds that once removed it should never be added back. :) - Bilby (talk) 10:28, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- And this is why the PROD process is a waste of space..... Joseph2302 (talk) 10:54, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- I totally agree... Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:24, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- The role of prod is to avoid an AfD if there is not going to be any disagreement. Which makes it handy for uncontroversial deletions. If there is a disagreement, indicated by removing the tag, then AfD makes sense. Accordingly, I think prod serves a useful role. - Bilby (talk) 11:34, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- PROD doesn't work because editors that don't understand notability or IP users can remove them. Or you can just request undelete of a PROD after it's deleted. All users should just use AFD as it is the only sensible way to get non notable rubbish deleted. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- I tend to see it as a warning - "You have seven days, or I am likely to send this to AfD - if you can fix it before then it won't need to go there". As such, I like it as a way of indicating a problem that has a time limit, as opposed to simply tagging the article for notability (as those tags can remain for years with nothing being done). But I understand that the experience of others will differ. - Bilby (talk) 11:52, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- PROD doesn't work because editors that don't understand notability or IP users can remove them. Or you can just request undelete of a PROD after it's deleted. All users should just use AFD as it is the only sensible way to get non notable rubbish deleted. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)