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Tech News: 2022-05

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 a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
    • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 24 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge
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Hello, here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

English Wikipedia most visited
Statistics for pageviews to encyclopedias in Norway in 2021 were recently shared on Torget. Not surprisingly, Wikipedia is the most-visited encyclopedia; the English-language edition is slightly ahead of the Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk editions (combined), with 348 and 325 million pageviews, respectively. In comparison, the next encyclopedia on the list, Store norske leksikon, had 112 million pageviews. The numbers speak for themselves: Wikipedia is where people go to learn.
It is also a reminder that Wikipedians' efforts are incredibly important. We hope these numbers can help motivate both new and experienced contributors.
Thanks to H@r@ld for sharing this information.
Bot workshop
On Sunday 27 February from 12:00–16:00, we will hold a bot workshop! We will go through how to set up and run the most common bot framework, Pywikibot, on PAWS, and show some of the most common standard scripts in Pywikibot.
Maximum 10 participants! Sign up on the meet-up page or via e-mail to jhsoby@wikimedia.no.
Year of Queer Culture
panel debate in Bergen
On Thursday 24 March, Wikimedia Norge and the National Archive for Queer History will hold a panel debate at Litteraturhuset, Bergen. The theme for the debate is how archives, museums and Wikipedia can make queer history, art and culture more visible. IT will also examine how we use contemporary labels for the past. A common understanding of what queer history is will help us to make queer history more visible.
The event is part of the Year of Queer Culture 2022.
Wiki meet-up and general assembly in Bergen
Wikimedia Norge will host a wiki meet-up with pizza and something to drink at Villa Paradiso Ole Bull on 25 March, starting 18:30. Register on the wiki meet-up page or by e-mail to wikimedia@wikimedia.no.
The next day, on 26 March from 12–14, we will hold our general assembly, taking place at Litteraturhuset, Bergenː All members are welcome! The general assembly will also be streamed for those who can't be there in person, and voting will happen digitally.
Active contributors can get a travel stipend. Send an e-mail to astrid@wikimedia.no in order to apply.
Remember membership fees before the general assembly!
You can finally use Vipps to set up a regular, annual payment of your membership. We have updated our website and hope even more people will use a recurring payment. If you wish to use AvtaleGiro, that is also still possible.
Remember that you must have paid your membership fee for 2022 in order to vote at the general assembly.

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Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) 15:03, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Vietnam Barnstar of National Merit
Thank you so much for the great work on Vietnam-related articles especially on historical topics! Nyanardsan (talk) 06:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Nyanardsan (talk) 06:18, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:46, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-06

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Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs. Significant value can be lost by sub-optimal bucking because logs destined for plywood, lumber, and pulp each have their own value and specifications for length, diameter, and defects. Cutting from the top down is overbucking and from the bottom up is underbucking.

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Wikidata weekly summary #506

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
      • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
      • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • January 1st as date
    • Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
    • Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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Tech News: 2022-06

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

  • English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
  • Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [2]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-07

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Bidriware is a metal handicraft from Bidar, India. It was developed in the 14th century C.E. during the rule of the Bahamani Sultans. The term "bidriware" originates from the township of Bidar, which is still the chief centre for the manufacture of the unique metalware. Due to its striking inlay artwork, bidriware is an important export handicraft of India and is prized as a symbol of wealth. The metal used is a blackened alloy of zinc and copper inlaid with thin sheets of pure silver. This native art form has obtained Geographical Indications (GI) registry.

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Wikidata weekly summary #507

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
    • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

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Tech News: 2022-07

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

  • Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [3]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [4]

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Project

Just letting you know I'm not ignoring you, I'm just busy. I also don't really enjoy dealing with that kind of stuff, it gets toxic too easily. The project is User:Alexis Jazz/Bawl, I could actually use testers. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 01:33, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz:, I did see that you were using it to reply to people. I'm willing to test it, just leave me a message here when you are looking for a for a tester. --Donald Trung (talk) 06:45, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
You could try it right now, though I plan to clean up the code a bit which might introduce some new bugs, but that otherwise won't really affect functionality. Since it's still new, it would be recommendable to check your edits. I also just made another script, much simpler, for which I specifically need testers who use the mobile site (which I know is your favorite): User:Alexis Jazz/EditNoticesOnMobile. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 20:47, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz:, the mobile website is by no means my favourite, I just exclusively use mobile devices so I am forced to use this hideous interface. All I have to do is copy it to my JavaScript page right? Excuse the late reply, researching some things for the Wikimedia Commons as some person just single-handedly changed the entire copyright interpretation for a country and I'm not sure yet if her interpretation is more correct or just more dismissive of the notion that the changes aren't retroactive. Such changes always predict massive deletions and I would rather not lose basically all post-1940's content of a country on the basis of a misinterpretation. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:08, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
You can't use other skins on mobile devices? I never actually tried that I guess. Yes, for both scripts you need to copy the mw.loader.load line to your common.js. Maybe you can ask Legal to look at the copyright issue? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 08:49, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz:, excuse the late reply, I had some projects to finish at the Wikimedia Commons. As for Wikimedia Legal, I can't ask them (as they're at the Meta-Wiki), as for Brawl, I'll install it now to see how it functions on mobile. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Alexis Jazz, Let me test this out, I see a link, pencil, and speech bubble, if I click on the link emoji nothing happens, if I click on the speech bubble I open a reply similar to the new reply tool, and if I click on the pencil I can edit the above. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:31, 11 February 2022 (UTC) Donald Trung (talk) 08:31, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
There's an example of something I never thought of, this is why I need testers. The link emoji provides an anchored link to the comment in question. It's really only useful for copy-pasting but the interface doesn't properly communicate that. It would also be more useful if the links were permalinks. I'll disable this feature by default until I've worked that out. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:07, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for the feedback at User talk:Donald Trung (revision 630165708). I understand the issues, I also get why w3schools suggested selecting the input field contents now. The way it's intended to work is that when you click/tap the text field the link is copied to your clipboard and (if the link was copied to the clipboard successfully) the text field disappears. But this is known to be maybe problematic on Android[5] and maybe other mobile devices as well as any browser without permission to write to the clipboard, which is why the text field is provided to copy from. I'll improve it. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:37, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
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