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Tech News: 2024-49

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 with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language 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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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• 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.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Question from Tatydits (19:10, 4 December 2024)

Hi. How can I translate a page to Belarusian language? Thanks --Tatydits (talk) 19:10, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Wibiyantip (08:23, 5 December 2024)

Hello --Wibiyantip (talk) 08:23, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• 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, archiveUrl and archiveDate, 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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Faith Anaja (01:26, 13 December 2024)

Please how can I start a new article on my sand box --Faith Anaja (talk) 01:26, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

The process to start a new article is a lengthy one and you must first submit a new article request Ryearwood (talk) 02:48, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ryearwood (02:46, 15 December 2024)

Hi there, would you like to create a page for us? I have requested a page be created for Reed Yearwood under "American sociologists." This will help absolve internal bias. Thanks so much for approving! --Ryearwood (talk) 02:46, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from NosferatuBob (13:18, 15 December 2024)

Hi, Tollens

I have a question about file versions, specifically about deleting earlier versions. Any assistance you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

I added a file yesterday at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MZ2SYNTH-DEMO-01.ogg, but I found during experimentation that it was significantly louder than other audio files on the same page. Consequently, I normalized my own version (to -14 dB) and posted it as a new version. There is no reason to retain the old version, and indeed it could cause discomfort or pain to someone if they listen to it with their audio volume turned up high.

Can you assist me to flag the earlier version (Dec. 14) to a maintainer for deletion?

Best regards, --NosferatuBob (talk) 13:18, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I have managed to answer my own question. It is easier to simply create a new file and nominate the old file for deletion. Instructions at the link below.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests

Thanks, NosferatuBob (talk) 13:56, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sarawutsza (18:47, 15 December 2024)

Account type : Own Account Account ID : AC2-00000188-5812 Unitholder name : MR. Sarawut Kaewyana --Sarawutsza (talk) 18:47, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sodunke Moyosoreoluwa (23:36, 16 December 2024)

How can add about me on Wikipedia --Sodunke Moyosoreoluwa (talk) 23:36, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Sarawutsza

Account type : Own Account Account ID : AC2-00000188-581... Sarawutsza (talk) 03:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jaypharsi on User:Jaypharsi (19:05, 21 December 2024)

Hi I want to write a Wikipedia bio about my self I’m a South African content creator --Jaypharsi (talk) 19:05, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

@Jaypharsi: In short, you don't. Please see WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:23, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from SM-4747187 on User:SM-4747187 (15:03, 23 December 2024)

When I am done writing and doing other changes in sandbox. What is the next step? how can I make the content live so others can see it when they search? --SM-4747187 (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Greetings of the season

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Hello Tollens: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Spread the love; use {{subst:User:Dustfreeworld/Xmas3}} to send this message.

--Dustfreeworld (talk) 14:47, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Towackey on User:Towackey/Sample page (17:11, 24 December 2024)

Hello how do you add a image --Towackey (talk) 17:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ahmad hossen on Wikipedia:Article wizard/Referencing (21:25, 24 December 2024)

كيف اقوم بانشاء مقال --Ahmad hossen (talk) 21:25, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from FREE.GAMING.257 (07:54, 27 December 2024)

How can I publish a page --FREE.GAMING.257 (talk) 07:54, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from FREE.GAMING.257 (07:55, 27 December 2024)

How can publish a article on Wikipedia --FREE.GAMING.257 (talk) 07:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Trafficjam8 (07:13, 2 January 2025)

hello, i am looking to create a wikipedia article for a band how do i do that --Trafficjam8 (talk) 07:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from Sadiq mansoori on ElevenLabs (11:30, 2 January 2025)

इस बंदे को पता भी नहीं है की ये कितनी बड़ी गलती कर रहा है दअरसल ये जिस चीज के किनारे ये बंदा बड़े मजे से दौड़ रहा है उसे dam hale या फिर नरक का दरबाज भी कहा जाता है क्योंकि इसमें कोई भी इंसान गलती से भी गिर गया तो मौत पक्की अब जो ये होल्स होते है वो लगभग 70 फीट चौड़े होते हैं ये विशाल काय hale dam के ऊपर इसलिए बनाया जाते हैं ताकि dam का पानी ओवर फीले न हो पर अभी तो ये सिर्फ शुरबत थी असली खेल तो तब शुरु होता है जब dam का पानी हद से जद बढ़ जाता हैं लेकिन कुछ लोग इनके ऊपर बैठ कर बहुत मजे से पानी में नहाते हैं मानो उन्हें पता ही नहीं है की ये उनके लिए कितना खतरनाक हो सकता हैं और इसे भी हैरान कर देने वाली बात तो ये है की ये अन कंट्रोल होते हैं इसलिए जैसे ही dam का पानी हद से ज्यादा बढ़ जाता हैं तो ये ऑटो माटिकली पानी को अपने अंदर सामना शुरु कर देते हैं और एक सेकेंड में 15 लाख लीटर पानी को निगल लाते हैं इस दौरान जो भी चीज इनके रास्ते में अति है वो दोबारा कभी नहीं मिलती ।... --Sadiq mansoori (talk) 11:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC)