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Tech News: 2024-13
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
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [1][2]
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Category:Set index articles on molecular formulas/sandbox
Have you finished with the unparented test page Category:Set index articles on molecular formulas/sandbox, please? – Fayenatic London 16:28, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: Nerfed (I think, might take a while to propagate). Someday I'll revisit what I was working on there. Some...day... DMacks (talk) 08:43, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Tech News: 2024-14
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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [3]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [4][5]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Culture vandal
Re [6], the user is a long-term troll, any effort put into edit summaries will be lost. Best, CMD (talk) 05:23, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the intel. Wasn't one I had encountered before when that edit popped up on my watchlist. DMacks (talk) 06:44, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Is 31 hours the right block-length (based on IP hop rate)? DMacks (talk) 06:46, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- 31 would work fine, it's a proxy that will be dropped immediately. CMD (talk) 06:52, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Well, at least we'll get some proxy-blocks out of it. Is it open enough that we should block for longer term? I'll watchlist a few more pages in that area, but also feel free to ping me if you find a mole that needs whacking. DMacks (talk) 07:36, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- I don't think there is harm in blocking for a longer term, it has been done on previous occasions, but at the same time there is no point taking time out of your day to do it. Usually they make one or maybe two edits per IP of more subtle disruption, this one feels like its acting out to try and get a reaction. CMD (talk) 07:50, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Well, at least we'll get some proxy-blocks out of it. Is it open enough that we should block for longer term? I'll watchlist a few more pages in that area, but also feel free to ping me if you find a mole that needs whacking. DMacks (talk) 07:36, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- 31 would work fine, it's a proxy that will be dropped immediately. CMD (talk) 06:52, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Is 31 hours the right block-length (based on IP hop rate)? DMacks (talk) 06:46, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Page help link
Template:Page help link has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:50, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-15
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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [7][8]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [10][11]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [12]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Please check your inbox
I just sent you an email. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 23:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Epoxy
Hi there!
Regarding the edit in Epoxy#Renewable, recycled, waterborne and biobased epoxy
I appreciate your point about biobased epoxies having been around for a while. However, the concept of 100% closed-loop recycling is quite novel, which is why it's highlighted in the recent publication in Science. Perhaps my explanation wasn't clear enough. I am just trying, to keep Wiki up-to-date.
Closed-loop recyclability of a biomass-derived epoxy-amine thermoset by methanolysis | Science RomanVilgut (talk) 13:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-16
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [13][14]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [15][16]
- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [17]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [18]
Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the
abuse_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [19]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)