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Tech News: 2021-14

ข่าวเทคนิคจากชุมชนเทคนิควิกิมีเดีย บอกต่อข่าวในเรื่องใหญ่ ไม่ใช่ทุกการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่จะมีผลกับคุณ ดูในภาษาอื่น

การเปลี่ยนแปลงล่าสุด

• เมื่อคุณคลิกลิงไปยังส่วนที่ถูกยุบไว้อยู่ ในตอนนี้ส่วนนั้นจะถูกขยายออกเพื่อแสดงส่วนนั้น และเบราว์เซอร์จะเลื่อนลงไปที่ตรงนั้นด้วย ในอดีตลิงก์จะไม่ทำงานหากคุณไม่ได้ขยายส่วนที่ย่อก่อน [1]

การเปลี่ยนแปลงในช่วงหลังสัปดาห์นี้

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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02:40, 6 เมษายน 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-16

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

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [3][4]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [5][6][7]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [8]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• 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 two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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23:48, 19 เมษายน 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [9][10][11]

Changes later this week

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

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04:24, 27 เมษายน 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-18

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

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [12]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [13]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [14][15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [16]

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22:43, 3 พฤษภาคม 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-19

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 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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22:09, 10 พฤษภาคม 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-20

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

• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [17] [18] [19]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [20][21]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [22]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [23]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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20:49, 17 พฤษภาคม 2564 (+07)

Growth Newsletter #18

Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks

A screenshot of "add a link" feature in development in beta.

"Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.

News for mentors

Mockup of the Mentor dashboard.

• We are currently working on a Mentor dashboard. This special page aims to help mentors be more proactive and be more successful at their role. The first iteration will include a table that shows an overview of the mentors current mentees, a module with their own settings, and a module that will allow them to store their best replies to their mentees questions.
• We've conducted our quarterly audit on Growth's four pilot wikis to see the activity of mentors. It appears that the vast majority of mentors are active.

Community configuration

Community configuration editing form under development

We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.

Scaling

• Growth features are now available on 35 wikis. Here is the list of the most recent ones: Romanian Wikipedia, วิกิพีเดียภาษาเดนมาร์ก, วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย, Indonesian Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, วิกิพีเดียภาษาเอสเปรันโต, Hindi Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, วิกิพีเดียภาษาสเปน, Simple English Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, วิกิพีเดียภาษากรีก, Catalan Wikipedia.
• A new group of Wikipedias has been defined for the deployment of Growth features. Please contact us if you have questions about the deployment process, or if your community likes to get the features in advance.
• After discussion with the English Wikipedia community, the Growth features will be tested on a small percentage of new accounts. At the moment, registered users can test the features by turning them on in their preferences.

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22:23, 17 พฤษภาคม 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-21

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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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00:06, 25 พฤษภาคม 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-22

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

• There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [24]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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00:05, 1 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-23

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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [25][26][27]
• Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [28]
• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [29][30]

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03:02, 8 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-24

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

• Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [31]
• Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [32]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
• German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [33]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [34][35]

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03:26, 15 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (คุย) 11:18, 16 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Tech News: 2021-25

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 otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [36]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [37]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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22:49, 21 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)

Editing news 2021 #2

อ่านเรื่องนี้ในภาษาอื่น ๆ • รายการการสมัครสมาชิกสำหรับจดหมายข่าวนี้ ซึ่งมีอยู่หลายภาษา

สำหรับผู้เขียนรุ่นใหม่ที่ใช้เครื่องมือตอบกลับ เขาเหล่านั้นประสบความสำเร็จในการพูดคุยบนหน้าพูดคุย (ที่มา)

เมื่อช่วงต้นปี ทีมงานได้ทำการศึกษาการใช้งาน เครื่องมือตอบกลับ จุดประสงค์หลักของการศึกษาคือเพื่อศึกษาว่าเครื่องมือตอบกลับช่วยให้ผู้ร่วมเขียนรุ่นใหม่สื่อสารง่ายขึ้นบนวิกิพีเดียหรือไม่ จุดประสงค์ที่สองคือเพื่อศึกษาว่าข้อคิดเห็นที่ผู้ร่วมเขียนรุ่นใหม่เขียนโดยใช้เครื่องมือ มีโอกาสที่จะโดนย้อนกลับมากกว่าหรือน้อยกว่าข้อคิดเห็นที่ผู้ร่วมเขียนรุ่นใหม่เขียนโดยระบบปัจจุบัน

โดยสรุปได้ดังนี้

• ผู้เขียนรุ่นใหม่ที่ใช้เครื่องมือแก้ไขซึ่งถูกเปิดใช้งานโดยอัตโนมัติ มีอัตราการแสดงความคิดเห็นในหน้าพูดคุยมากกว่า
• ความคิดเห็นที่ผู้เขียนรุ่นใหม่เขียนยัง มีอัตราการโดนย้อนกลับ น้อยกว่าความคิดเห็นที่ผู้เขียนรุ่นใหม่เขียนโดยการแก้ไขแบบทั้งหน้า

ผลลัพธ์ที่กล่าวมาให้ความมั่นใจกับทีมงานว่าเครื่องนี้เป็นประโยชน์

มองไปข้างหน้า

ทีมงานวางแผนที่จะใช้เครื่องมือตอบกลับกับทุกคน โดยมีทางเลือกที่จะไม่ใช้ได้ ในไม่กี่เดือนข้างหน้า สิ่งนี้เกิดขึ้นแล้วในวิกิพีเดียภาษาอาหรับ เช็ก และ ฮังการี

สิ่งต่อไปที่จะทำคือการแก้ปัญหาทางเทคนิก หลังจากนั้น เราจะเริ่มใช้งานเครื่องมือกับวิกิพีเดียภาษาที่ร่วมทำการวิจัยก่อน หลังจากนั้นเราจะเริ่มใช้งานในวิกิพีเดียภาษาอื่นๆ และ วิกิอื่นๆที่มูลนิธิเป็นผู้ให้บริการเป็นลำดับ

คุณสามารถเปิดใช้งาน เครื่องมือช่วยเหลือการอภิปราย ในSpecial:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures ฟีเจอร์เบตาได้แล้ว หลังจากที่คุณเริ่มใช้งาน คุณสามารถเปลี่ยนแปลงความต้องการของคุณได้ตลอดเวลาที่ Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (พูดคุย)

21:14, 24 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)

Tech News: 2021-26

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

• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [38]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [39]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [40][41]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [42][43]

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23:31, 28 มิถุนายน 2564 (+07)