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Tech News: 2021-30

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

• A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

• If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference Enable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Request on 12:24:44, 19 July 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by Ainamera22

• Ainamera22 (talk · contribs)
  • User:Ainamera22 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello Rich Smith, I am sorry for the copyrighted material. I will write the affected part in my own word but I am uncertain of where to begin. Could you please tell me what parts were exactly copyrighted, so that I can focus on them directly?

Ainamera22 (talk) 12:24, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@Ainamera22: Have a look at the copyvios report - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 12:28, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@Rich Smith: Well, it seems like it is usually filled with the song list, but how can I rewrite that? Song is song... Should I mention that I materials are from this and that sources? Like "As reported on ABC, song and song..." Ainamera22 (talk) 12:31, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello :@Rich Smith:, the copyrights have been released by his official site. Can you please look into it again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jolyon_Petch Ainamera22 (talk) 15:35, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Asking.

Why the edit of "mine" was reverted? জাবিরটটক (talk) 10:51, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

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 your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
• Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

• The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
• The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

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

• You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [4]

Changes later this week

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
• The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [5]
• Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [6]

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16:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

About your page notice templates

Since your templates are now available to the public, I was wondering if I can slightly edit your templates, especially grammar specification. If so, thanks.

Doctorine Dark (talk) 15:36, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Doctorine Dark: of course you can :) 85.255.232.192 (talk) 16:19, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@85.255.232.192: Is that you, sir? Doctorine Dark (talk) 16:20, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok thanks. Doctorine Dark (talk) 16:23, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

@Doctorine Dark: It was me indeed, on mobile and wasn't logged in - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 16:27, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Request on 18:48:04, 14 August 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by Cotryk

• Cotryk (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:List of Technology with Miyuru Amarasiri episodes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Cotryk (talk) 18:48, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

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

• You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [7]

Problems

• There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [8][9][10]

Changes later this week

• A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [11]
• Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
• In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

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