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Tech News: 2024-22 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
- Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.- Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes:
.collapsible,.multicol,.reflist,.coordinates,.topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [1][2]- When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [3]
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Engineer's Building airstrike edit
This is a straightforward supervote, and if you do not reverse it I will be opening a move review. nableezy - 13:01, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Obviously I don't believe it was a supervote or I wouldn't have done the close. Open a move review if you believe that would be productive. SilverLocust 💬 18:24, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Please see the initiated move review. nableezy - 21:48, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Introduction to contentious topics edit
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Selfstudier (talk) 21:57, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- I am certainly aware of that. While I don't edit articles in the topic area very much, I have created more than 500 editnotices with {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice}} to remind others of the restrictions. SilverLocust 💬 22:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Gianna "Gigi" Bryant edit
In the future, in cases like that where the existing redirect used to be an article with substantial edit history, it's better to move it to the "Administrator Needed" section and request that a WP:HISTMERGE be done rather than swapping the pages. I went ahead and swapped the talk pages back and did a manual merge of their contents, and tagged the article for an admin to do a history merge. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Ahecht: After I had a histmerge declined because there wasn't copying, I've only requested them for C&P moves. I didn't see any copying or attribution issues, so I just swapped them. By the way, you have some pages left in Special:PrefixIndex/Draft talk:Move/ space. SilverLocust 💬 22:41, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-23 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
- It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [4]
- The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "
MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [5] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (
w:dtp:) [6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [7][8]
Future changes
- Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.
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