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Tech News: 2024-17

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

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [2][3]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jorjita56 on Ignorance Is Bliss (02:17, 23 April 2024)

How do I add a reference to “Ignorance is bliss” from a book I just finished on President James A Garfield. In the book Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard, pages 375-377, Dr Bliss method of treatment was responsible for the massive infection in Garfield. Due to the ignorance and sense of superiority, Dr Bliss did not acknowledge new medical methods for treatment to eliminate or reduce infection/septic conditions. Hence “ignorance is (Dr) Bliss”. --Jorjita56 (talk) 02:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for asking to help with referencing. Go through these pages. Referencing for beginners and Citing sources. If you're still not okay with the above information pages, you can ask your questions here, Reference desk. User:Em-mustapha ^talk 08:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2024

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Question from Specklynnn (17:21, 25 April 2024)

How do I create a wiki page --Specklynnn (talk) 17:21, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi, check this, Creating my first article. User:Em-mustapha ^talk 01:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2024

Women in Red | May 2024, Volume 10, Issue 5, Numbers 293, 294, 305, 306, 307 Online events: New: Press women | Alphabet run U, V & W | Central and Eastern Europe Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024 - contest with certificates of participation and prizes The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th Tip of the month: Use open-access references wherever possible, but a paywalled reliable source is better than none, particularly for biographies of living people. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 06:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [5]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [6]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [7]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [8]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [9]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [10]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [11]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [12]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [13]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [15][16]

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtieth newsletter covering March and April 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

• * Upcoming user group meeting 19 May

Other news

• Wikipedia Signpost highlighted five papers about climate change editing. (SDG 13)
• On Wikidata, a model for documenting green house gas emissions has been created. (SDG 13)
• An update from the Wikipedian in Residence at the Environment Protection Authority in Victoria, Australia.
• WikiAcción Perú organized a training session: "Climate Change Actions and Wikimedia Movement" (SDG 13)
• WikiForHumanRights organized a session: "Adding Sustainability Perspectives to Wikivoyage"

Events

• Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, starts in May. (SDG 14 & 15)
• Wiki For Climate Change 2024 - Maghreb region starts in May. (SDG 13)

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