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Tech News: 2024-20[edit]
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
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [1] - If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [2]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=
attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [3] - The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [4]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [5][6]
- The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [7]
Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [8]
- Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
andpl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
andlt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
withJOIN linktarget
andpl_
withlt_
in theON
statement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [9][10]
- Replace
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Request to reopen CFD[edit]
Hi, you asked for my opinion yesterday at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_6#Category:Deaths_from_food_poisoning, then closed it before I had saved my !vote. I have comments that I think are worth contributing. Please would you reopen the discussion? – Fayenatic London 09:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: my apologies. Not sure how I overlooked that you had not commented. Reopened. HouseBlaster (he/him) 11:33, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Cheers. Please could I also ask for Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_4#Category:Egyptian_films_by_year, as the rationale is partly incorrect – there are other national siblings within Category:20th-century films. – Fayenatic London 16:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: Sure. Reopened. HouseBlaster (he/him) 17:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- Cheers. Please could I also ask for Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_4#Category:Egyptian_films_by_year, as the rationale is partly incorrect – there are other national siblings within Category:20th-century films. – Fayenatic London 16:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 May 2024[edit]
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- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
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Tech News: 2024-21[edit]
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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [11]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [12][13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [14][15]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
FlagIOC[edit]
Would you like me to finish the job and add spaces to the rest of the Flag templates? (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 06:06, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- That would be awesome! Thank you so much :) HouseBlaster (he/him) 11:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Cool. Will save me an additional 50 watchlist notification emails :) Primefac (talk) 11:45, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also, if you're keen on expanding compact/vague template names, I have a list of acronyms that need expansion. Primefac (talk) 11:54, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Cool. Will save me an additional 50 watchlist notification emails :) Primefac (talk) 11:45, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
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