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I wrote about CleanupWorklistBot in that piece. You might want to add it to the bot's page.

Either way, cheerio! Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:27, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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 02:18, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Not sure if it's useful information

Hey @Bamyers99, On the AlexNewArtBot's TamilNaduSearchResult here, I see the page Bojan Ofenbeher which has no relevance to Tamil Nadu or to the rules mentioned here. Not sure if this matters or just a one-off error or I maybe missing something. Just wanted to let you know. Cheers! Jeraxmoira (talk) 06:24, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

@Jeraxmoira: it matched rule /\WChennai/ with Chennaiyin FC as noted in User:InceptionBot/NewPageSearch/TamilNadu/log. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:43, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Ah yes, Sorry my bad. I get it now. Jeraxmoira (talk) 04:51, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-31

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  • The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
  • The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [1][2]
  • The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [3]

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. [4]

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. [5]

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

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Tech News: 2023-32

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  • 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. [6]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

TemplateParametersTool

Hi, could you add itwiki? :) --GryffindorD (talk) 18:02, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

@GryffindorD: It has been added here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:13, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! GryffindorD (talk) 15:43, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Tried to add WikiProject Craft

Hello, I just tried to add WikiProject Craft to generate a WikiProject cleanup listing, Clicking on "A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available." takes me to a "Not found", so your help would be appreciated. Many thanks, Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:08, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

@Mary Mark Ockerbloom: The bot only runs once a week on Tuesday. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:17, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
I wondered if it might be something like that. Many thanks again! Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:24, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Nobility category-catcher in AlexNewArtBot

Hi! Thank you very much for the testing website you help maintain for recently-created articles which match certain parameters. Can I ask for help? I am trying to make the rules of User:AlexNewArtBot/Royalty to catch articles which belong to categories often named "[country] nobility" or "earl of [place]". What would be the proper way to write this in the rules? Pilaz (talk) 21:18, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

@Pilaz: /category\s*:\s*[^\]]*nobility/ and /category\s*:\s*earl of / --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:33, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Many thanks! Pilaz (talk) 16:43, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-33

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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. [7]

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. [8]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:57, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

User:CleanupWorklistBot and talk page maintenance templates

Is it possible for User:CleanupWorklistBot to add articles to the report if they are tagged on their talk page? For example, Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe articles that need a response section is populated by the by the banner {{WikiProject Television}}. There are other similar categories. Gonnym (talk) 12:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Gonnym: It is possible. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:18, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Can you explain to me what I need to do in order for it to appear on the list? Gonnym (talk) 19:08, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
@Gonnym: The category list is a part of the bots code. I don't see the point in adding WikiProject specific categories as those would already be mentioned in the WikiProjects documentation. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:19, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 August 2023

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Bug in User:AlexNewArtBot/La

This template, which is used by InceptionBot (talk · contribs) when listing new articles at WikiProjects, renders incorrectly if the article title begins with an asterisk (*), instead interpreting it as a bullet point. An example of this behavior can be seen at Special:Permalink/1171220130 for the articles *Dʰéǵʰōm and *Dyēus, both about Proto-Indo-European mythology. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:31, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

@LaundryPizza03: Thanks for reporting. Fixed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:10, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-34

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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).

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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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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. [19]
  • All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [20]
  • Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [21]
  • Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [22][23]

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. [24]

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 13:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 August 2023

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Activation of AlexNewArtBot on this WikiProject

Hello there,

I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to you regarding the activation of the 'AlexNewArtBot' for the purpose of tracking new articles related to the WikiProject Chenab Valley. As the owner of the bot, could you kindly assist me in getting it set up on the Wikipedia: WikiProject Chenab Valley page? Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Best regards, ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 01:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

@TheChunky: The rules have been created. The results if there are any won't be available until tomorrows (September 2) bot run. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:46, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
@TheChunky: The first results are available. See Add the feed to a Portal/WikiProject for options. ChenabValleySearchResult is the page name. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:53, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
@Bamyers99 Thank you for this. Can you please add that feed on Chenab Valley articles alerts page? Thanks again. ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 02:37, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-36

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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. [29]

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. [30][31]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:31, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-37

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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. [32]
  • 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. [33]

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. [34]

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. [35]
  • 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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MediaWiki message delivery 21:05, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2023

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Tech News: 2023-38

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Recent changes

  • MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [36][37]

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. [38]
  • All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [39]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:17, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-39

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Recent changes

  • The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [40]

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. [41][42]

Meetings

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40

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Recent changes

  • There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". 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. [43]
  • 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 01:24, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Importance, Class missing in CleanupWorklistBot results

Hi, I'm noticing that in some CWB results (like here), the importance and class data is missing. Just thought I'd let you know. Thank you for a great tool at any rate! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 17:15, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

@StefenTower: Several years ago CleanupWorklistBot switched from using categories to determine importance and class to using mw:Extension:PageAssessments. This extension adds a function that template authors can use to populate that information. The {{WikiProject United States}} template is not calling that function for Louisville. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:08, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
After several spot checks, it seems like they don't call it for any locale. Hrmmm. Thanks for the info! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 22:33, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 October 2023

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Long overdue barnstar for you!

All-Around Amazing Barnstar
For all your assistance over the years in addressing issues and adding features to your CleanupWorklistBot, thereby providing a great service to WikiProjects, and this also goes for everything else you do in the Wikipedia. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 21:08, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Jung Myung-seok

I am so sorry, I thought it was still the IP's version, which you had already reverted. Reverted myself as a vandal - my apologies! Ravensfire (talk) 20:01, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Suggestion: Include "Pages with broken anchors"

Category:Pages with broken anchors is relatively new but it catches a genuine problem that would be nice to include in the cleanup listings. I did an AWB compare between this category and a WikiProject's article list and there were several in common. Thank you for your consideration. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 17:18, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

@StefenTower: It has been added. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:16, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the quick turnaround. Big thanks! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 20:20, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'm wondering if there's a problem with this addition. I fixed several of the articles listed last week (10 October) under "Pages with broken anchors" for WP:Surrey, but none were marked as "Resolved" on this week's bot run (17 October). Checking through the listings for a selection of random wikiprojects, it doesn't appear that any broken anchor issues identified last week have been marked as resolved, which is kinda odd... As far as I can tell, User:Cewbot, which updates Category:Pages with broken anchors, is functioning properly and is removing articles which have been fixed from the category listing. Could you take a look please? Thanks 5.80.230.148 (talk) 11:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
It does not look like Cewbot removes the message from the article talk page. The {{Broken anchors}} template will have to be removed manually. I have clarified the cleanup listing for the next run to say "Pages with broken anchors (see article talk page, remove when fixed)". --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:53, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I'll remove the tags manually from the talk pages and will keep an eye out for this in future. Pinging @StefenTower: so that they are aware of this issue too. Thanks 5.80.230.148 (talk) 14:34, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm aware. I've been removing this talk page banner after fixing the issue(s). Thanks for alerting me at any rate. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 17:48, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-42

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. [45]
  • 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 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Notice of Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Olekina Ledama & 105.163.158.75: Legal threat. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:42, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023

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Tech News: 2023-43

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. [46]

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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Tech News: 2023-44

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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. [47][48]
  • 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. [49]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 November 2023

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Tech News: 2023-45

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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. [50]

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. [51]

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. [52][53]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:03, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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