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Tech News: 2024-32
[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.
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Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}and{{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need forTemplate:DirandTemplate:BCP47on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [1][2]- Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
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- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
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- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Module:Page text
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Tech News: 2024-33
[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.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [3]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:) [4]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Whether "Oldtfdlist should go at the top of the nomination"
[edit]In [5], the edit summary said "tm:Oldtfdlist should go at the top of the nomination". Then do you want to change WP:TFDHOW? (I tested it to work at [6], and think your placement looks better. But idk Twinkle's behavior and the template placement should be consistent with P&G)
| − | directly after the | + | directly after the <code>|text=</code>. |
142.113.140.146 (talk) 10:43, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- In looking at examples where the template has been used ([7]), I mostly saw it placed at the beginning of the nomination (below the links). However, there are also several examples of it below the nomination. Either way shouldn't affect scripts. So I think it would be fine to update WP:TFDHOW to reflect either practice. (TFDHOW is just an instruction, not really a policy or guideline.) Part of why I changed it was that at WP:TfD#Current discussions it was overflowing into the nomination below yours (before there was a reply to yours). SilverLocust 💬 11:09, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- I did this edit in [8] with alternative wording to reflect your observation. 142.113.140.146 (talk) 22:12, 15 August 2024 (UTC)