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Tech News: 2023-37

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

• 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, "Predicciones de calidad de las contribuciones" and "Predicciones de las intenciones del usuario"), please report them. [1]
• 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. [2]

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. [3]

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. [4]
• 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 21:07 11 sep 2023 (UTC)

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La Fundación Wikimedia moverá el tráfico a otro de sus centros de datos (CPD). Esto permite asegurar que, incluso después de un desastre, Wikipedia y las demás wikis de Wikimedia puedan seguir funcionando. Para garantizar que todo funcione, el departamento de Tecnología de Wikimedia realizará una prueba programada. Esta prueba mostrará si puede cambiar con seguridad de un centro de datos a otro. Ello requiere que muchos equipos estén preparados para la prueba y estén disponibles para arreglar cualquier problema inesperado que pueda surgir.

Todo el tráfico cambiará al nuevo centro de datos el 20 septiembre. La prueba comenzará a las 14:00 UTC.

Lamentablemente, debido a algunas limitaciones en MediaWiki, no será posible editar mientras se realiza el cambio. Nos disculpamos por esta interrupción, y estamos trabajando para minimizarla en el futuro.

Se podrán leer, pero no editar, todas las wikis durante un corto período de tiempo.

• No se podrá editar durante un máximo de una hora el miércoles 20 septiembre 2023.
• Si tratas de editar o guardar durante ese período, verás un mensaje de error. Esperamos que ninguna edición se pierda durante esos minutos, pero no podemos garantizarlo. Si ves el mensaje de error, por favor aguarda hasta que todo vuelva a la normalidad. Después podrás guardar tus ediciones. Sin embargo, recomendamos que primero realices una copia de tus cambios, solo por si acaso.

Otros efectos:

• Los trabajos en segundo plano funcionarán algo más lento y algunos podrían ser descartados. Los enlaces en rojo no serán actualizados de forma tan rápida como ocurre normalmente. Si creaste un artículo que ya está enlazado en otra parte, ese enlace seguirá estando en rojo un poco más de tiempo de lo habitual. Varios scripts de larga duración serán detenidos.
• Esperamos que las actualizaciones de código ocurran normalmente como una semana normal. Sin embargo, en algunos casos podría congelarse el despliegue del código, en caso de que fuera necesario.
• GitLab no estará disponible por cerca de 90 minutos.

Este proyecto podrá ser aplazado de ser necesario. Puedes consultar la agenda en wikitech.wikimedia.org. Cualquier cambio será anunciado en la agenda. Habrá más notificaciones al respecto. Se mostrará un banner de aviso en todas las wikis 30 minutos antes de que ocurra esta operación. Comparte por favor esta información con tu comunidad.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 09:23 15 sep 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-38

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

• 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. [5][6]

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. [7]
• All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [8]

Future changes

• The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:19 18 sep 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-39

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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [9]

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. [10][11]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:51 26 sep 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40

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 user preference for "Habilitar siempre el modo seguro". 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. [12]
• 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

• The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [13]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:26 3 oct 2023 (UTC)