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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [1][2]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [3]
The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.
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Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [4]
The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [5]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [6][7]
Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.
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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 Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [9][10]
Problems
There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [11][12]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [13][14]
Future changes
The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [15][16]
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [17]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [18]
Future changes
The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.
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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
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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
mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [19]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [20][21]
@NotAGenious After testing a couple of submissions after reverting your removals, it still seems to work... what errors are you getting in your console? ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
VM1527:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: "undefined" is not valid JSON
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at getPageText (AFCRHS.ts:815:23)
at redirectInit (AFCRHS.ts:38:20)
at HTMLLIElement.<anonymous> (AFCRHS.ts:1093:4)
at HTMLLIElement.dispatch (jquery.js:5145:27)
at elemData.handle (jquery.js:4949:28)
getPageText @ AFCRHS.ts:815
redirectInit @ AFCRHS.ts:38
(anonymous) @ AFCRHS.ts:1093
dispatch @ jquery.js:5145
elemData.handle @ jquery.js:4949NotAGenious (talk) 15:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Hrm I still cannot reproduce that... what do you mean by the "more" dropdown? Also try clearing your cache and retrying. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 15:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
I meant "tools" on Vector. Still nothing. NotAGenious (talk) 15:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
I've modified the way the page's content is fetched- after purging your cache again do you still get the same issue? ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
It works now. Thank you so much!! NotAGenious (talk) 16:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Yahoo!! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-03
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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
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [22]
Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [23]
An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [26][27]
Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [28]
The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [29]
Latest comment: 4 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Hey Eejit43, just wanted you to know that {{R from draft namespace}} isn't being listed as a possible rcat in redirect-helper. Could you take a look at that? Thanks. – Hilst[talk] 21:09, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
I'll check on that shortly, thanks so much for pointing that out!! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 22:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
@Hilst Sorry that took so long, all fixed now! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 00:05, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! – Hilst[talk] 00:08, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Latest comment: 4 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hey, you keep overwriting the redirect at Metric engine but you aren't providing any sources. You need WP:reliable sources for all content on the project, or else anyone is allowed to challenge and and remove it. Remember, the WP:ONUS that information must be verifiable for inclusion in an article ... and that ... [t]he responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.microbiologyMarcus(petri dish·growths) 04:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Seems like Cielquiparle retargeted it to an appropriate destination. I'm well aware of WP:RS, but the target of Metric system made no sense, and in my view an unsourced article is better than that. I'm happy with this new destination, however. Thanks! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:46, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-04
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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
A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [30]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [31][32]
Latest comment: 3 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
If this is a simple thing to add, that would be great, if not, no worries.
This isn't much of an issue, but when your bot bullets things in External links, could it look to see if {{Authority control}} or {{"some random navbox"}} follows the link on the same line? Case 1Case 2 When the external links got bulleted in these two cases, it also made these templates bulleted from the shared line, causing a "Multiline table in list" error (and looks odd/indented on page). If simple, could the bot add a new line to separate the template from the link in cases like these? If not simple, no worries, the manual fix takes 10 seconds, and these errors are easily trackable and are (so far) not frequent (three that I know of in the last hour).
And not directly related, in clearing the third, I found this category issue, not sure if I cleared it correctly since it is a red cat, so feel free to adjust.
Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 03:07, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks so much for pointing that out! However, I do think it might be a bit too complicated for this case as it would take a fair amount of testing. Hopefully the bot won't have too many more pages to run on, and I will check the lint errors afterwards!
Additionally, I've removed the category you mentioned from Voter ID (India) as redlinked categories shouldn't be added per WP:NORED. :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 03:15, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Wasn't able to check when that broken cat was added, but I am now, and it was junk. Thanks for removing completely. Like I said, the lint error isn't a big issue. Just thought if it was a quick and simple something to add to the bot, great, otherwise, not a big deal. And it is a far more enjoyable error to fix than some others I've dealt with! :) (tidy fonts, yuck). This Table in List error's been eradicated from the site for a while, so whenever it pops up (and it regularly does, bot or no bot), it usually get corrected pretty quickly by one of the delinting regulars since eradicated errors tend to be are a little more visible on our tools due to the smaller quantity. Thanks again! Zinnober9 (talk) 01:53, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Background color of redirect-helper
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Would you kindly remove the green background from User:Eejit43/scripts/redirect-helper? It sticks out among the Wikipedia interface theme a lot, and users could always change the background color of it if they wanted to. (Note that they currently can't because the styles are inline which always override other unimportant rules)
Also, maybe consider a migration to codex? Aaron Liu (talk) 16:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I've created a pull request on the GitHub for this. It's number... 69‽ That's like the third time I've see that number pop up in my personal life this week Aaron Liu (talk) 16:55, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I've merged your PR, thank you! I think I might make the background a bit gray to make it stand out, but I'll do some testing. I'll also use a stylesheet at some point instead of inline styles.
I'm not that familiar with Codex, but as far as my understanding goes it isn't a drop-in replacement to OOUI. Until it has the same or similar functionality, I think it would be far too cumbersome to migrate, at least right now. Let me know if I'm missing something though! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 17:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-05
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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 Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [33]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [34][35]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [37]
Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Eejit43. Sometimes when users put requests at WP:RM/TR they don't begin a line with exactly 1 asterisk and 1 space before the template, i.e., * {{rmassist.
Latest comment: 3 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Hi, I created Eric John Anonby's article. This article is not about me but about an academic person. I added many sources to it which are authentic and secondary. What else should I do for it? Iroony (talk) 18:51, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
@Iroony The reason I suspected you might have a conflict of interest was due to the text "references to my books". If that isn't what you intended to say, I apologize.
The reason I draftified the article was because it failed WP:GNG, the general notability guideline. It states that A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. From the current sources, most claims aren't backed up (failing WP:BLP), and almost all references are either simply research papers with the subject's name on it, unrelated links to associated entities, or simply listings of the subject from non-independent sources.
I would suggest looking at the links above, and if you make sufficient changes to prove the subject is notable (if they are), then the draft can be submitted and if successfully reviewed, will be moved to the mainspace. If you have further questions, I would suggest asking at the Teahouse. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Yes, I made a mistake about the title of my books. That part was a draft and was not supposed to be transferred to the Wikipedia environment. I hope you will accept my apology. I will put the article back in the review.Iroony (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
@Iroony again, the article doesn't pass WP:GNG so it will very likely not get approved. I would suggest making improvements to the article if you want it to be moved to mainspace. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:44, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-06
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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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [38][39]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [40][41]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [42]
Future changes
24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [43][44]
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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 WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [45][46][47] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [48][49]
Problems
There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [50][51]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[52] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [53]
Latest comment: 3 months ago14 comments4 people in discussion
Hey. @Eejit43. I've been looking at WP:AFC/R a fair bit the last couple days, and I've noticed that @Raydann and @NotAGenious have processed a fair few requests without actually closing/replying to the discussions. I also noticed you made a change to your script. Any thoughts on why this might be happening and if it's related? For what it's worth, I processed a number of requests myself and those requests all replied to the page and closed the discussion. Hey man im josh (talk) 23:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
That latest change was simply minifying the code to improve load times, so there shouldn't have been anything that could have affected that. I would assume it is because nothing is done to a request if not all requests in a section are handled. Do you happen to have an example diff I could take a look at? Thanks so much for pointing that out! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 00:34, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi - The problem is that there is no diff. I handled a quite large (50+?) batch of requests last night and got ratelimited in the process, almost all redirects were created and talk pages tagged but the edit to AFCRC itself didn't get through. It might be worth to test adding an option to chabge thev edit interval, like what's at User:Awesome Aasim/redirectcreator. It would also work just to handle requests in smaller batches, a reminder could be added to the script for new reviewers.
I'll look into this later today and close the completed requests manually. Sorry. NotAGenious (talk) 08:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Ah, I see, I'm sorry that happened!! I've been wanting to do a full rewrite of the script at some point, and this might be a good reason to start on one at some point. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Then may I request 4 small buttons for accept, decline, comment, and no action instead of a drop down? Hey man im josh (talk) 14:56, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Not a bad idea! I might use radio inputs instead, I'll see how I end up handling the rest of the dialog. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:58, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
No problem but hey, while we're at it, here are a few ideas I'd like to see. Don't be overwhelmed; the script works really well as is, these are just some quality of life features :D
When accepting a category request, add an option to populate the category with pages from the "Example pages which belong to this category:". This way reviewers shouldn't have to worry about WP:C1 tagging.
Change talk page tagging to use Template:Wikiproject banner shell as this seems to be the standard format. These are automatically converted by User:Cewbot, but it would save an edit if the script did it automatically.
When declining a category request for not being a category request, the script malfunctions, see the last section. {{subst:afc category|notcategory}} should be used instead. There are also pretty useful decline reasons at Template:AfC category and Template:Afc redirect that could be added.
Possibly add support for rest of the closing templates listed at Template:AfC b - I'd imagine that "r" for no response and successful and unsuccessful for when there was prior discussion regarding the request, could be useful.
We recently got consensus for a split to redirects and categories, so if you could update the script to work on WP:AFCC that would be awesome too. NotAGenious (talk) 16:25, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Amazing, thanks so much! I'll try to implement all those features, but it will take a while to get the full thing up and running :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing that out. I guess I thought that the script would need some modifications to work there but it should function just fine! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 13:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
There are some issues with long loading times and some performance issues, and I am working to resolve them. The script doesn't handle rate limiting yet, so if you are testing the script out, keep that in mind. Let me know what you think! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:19, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
The loading and performance issues have been resolved! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:57, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
And rate limiting should now be handled properly! I'm going to move on to working on supporting WP:AFC/C soon. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:31, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
WP:AFC/C support is finalized, and the script is good to go! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:01, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Hooray scripts!
Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
The Scripting Barnstar
For your high-quality, well-designed, typescript and aesthetically pleasing scripts. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:27, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you so much! Glad they are of use :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:29, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-08
Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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
If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [54]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [56][57]
Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [58]
Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [59]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [60]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [61][62]
Future changes
The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
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Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [1][2]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow 
The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.
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Featured script
Updated scripts
Improve a script
Requested scripts
New scripts
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [36]
Newly maintained scripts
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Requested scripts
The redirect Bingo (dog) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 4 § Bingo (dog) until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 02:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)