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*Recent changes*
- Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated
multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in
T315209 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315209 >.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.3 >
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It
will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap >).
- Visual diffs
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Diffs >
will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and
Wikipedias. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314588 >
- Talk pages on the mobile site
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Mobi… >
will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew,
Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide
more information. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318302 > [3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Mobile >
- In the Module <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua/Scripting >
namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like
they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144475 >
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*Recent changes*
- Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped:
tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to
be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See
T299417 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299417 > for more
information. This is part of normalization
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization > of links tables.
[1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/… >
[2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ASarabadani_(WMF)/Database_for_devs_too… >
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.2 >
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It
will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap >).
- In Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph… >
maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On
Tuesday, the previous icon set
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartograph… >
will be updated to version maki 7.2
<https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Hilfe:Extension:Kartographer/Ico… >.
That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all
existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in
international contexts. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302861 >
[4]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Update… >
*Future changes*
- In a group discussion at Wikimania
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub/Software/Volunteer… >,
more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software
in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is
acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your
feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Content_Partnerships_Hub/Software/Volu… >
.
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*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.1 >
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will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap >).
- Syntax highlighting
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Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_too_many_expensive_pars… >.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316858 >
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Hello!
Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide their valuable feedback on
the Toolhub taxonomy[0]!
After a round of community feedback and input, we made the following
decisions about which categories and values to implement in the first
productionized version of the taxonomy.
=== Summary of Changes ===
1.
Exclude the proposed Programming language attribute.
2.
Exclude the proposed Platform attribute
3.
Revise the Tasks attribute values:
1.
Remove "Creating or uploading content"
2.
Add "Creating new content"
3.
Rename "Generating and recommending content" to "Recommending content"
4.
Revise the Content types attribute values:
1.
Add additional level of hierarchy to group content types and enable
both broad or specific values to be applied.
2.
Remove "Files".
3.
Split "Maps" and "Geographic Data"
Find more details of additional changes on the decision record log page[0]
=== Next Steps ===
The team will continue to observe and improve the taxonomy as the community
continues to use Toolhub.
We will monitor tags and community created lists to determine if certain
attributes would be useful or feasible in the future.
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Taxonomy_v2 [1]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Decision_record#Taxonomy_v2
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Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
(This is a crosspost.)
Hi everyone!
I'm happy to announce that the beloved Community Tech team (the folks
behind the Community Wishlist, as you know) invite you to meet them on
2022-09-14 for a chat on Zoom.
All details are on Meta [1]; your support in translating the message and
getting the word out is welcome, as usual.
Bonus!
They have a mini-survey for you (also at [1]). Please consider taking a few
minutes to let them know what you would like to see covered in future
meetings. You can leave your thoughts on the talk page. [2]
For everything related to this announcement and the event, please contact
Karolin Siebert (ksiebert(a)wikimedia.org).
Thanks for your attention!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/Talk_to_U…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/Talk…
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Erica Litrenta (she/her)
Senior Manager, Community Relations Specialists (Product)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF) >
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It
will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap >).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at
07:00 UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s1.dblist >)
and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s3.dblist >).
- On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be
hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if
Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of
#p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#addPortletLink >
function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting
#p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316908 >. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316908 >[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313409 >
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