使用者討論:邻家的王子

歡迎[纂]

自永樂修典，四庫編成，古今圖冊，收攬完備。惟近世曉覺道理，百家爭鳴。西學東漸，各有始末。士紳茫茫，遠不及逮。疑古者眾，怨舊者多。於是斥逐儒術，貶抑性理。殷周之明，莫非妖言；泰西末流，敬為上賓。崇外若此，至今百年。會西國志士，立典於網絡，開共筆之先河。吾人乃竊取一處，成以文言，謀復古法，載新世之大道，以揚中華文理，興千年舊邦，故亟需善古文而博今道者。願足下能同遊，共為大典，修先世之廢道，著當今之新知。

又，古文維基大典，以其從古，多有異於外文，宜先閱凡例，以求壹法。--丁子君 (對話) 二〇一七年九月二九日（五）一五時二九分 (UTC)[回覆]

Tech News: 2018-05[纂]

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

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一月二九日（一）一七時〇六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06[纂]

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

Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [二]
The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [三]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [四]

Problems

Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [五]

Changes later this week

When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [六]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [七]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of 然 or 否 it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [八]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [九]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [一〇][一一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年二月五日（一）二〇時五一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07[纂]

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

TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [一二][一三][一四]
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [一五]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [一六]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [一七]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [一八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年二月一二日（一）二一時五九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08[纂]

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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [一九][二〇]
You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [二一]

Problems

Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [二二]
Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [二三][二四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [二五]
Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年二月一九日（一）二二時五四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09[纂]

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

Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [二六]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [二七][二八]
Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [二九]
Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [三〇][三一][三二]

Changes later this week

Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [三三]
The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [三四][三五]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年二月二六日（一）一九時五二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10[纂]

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

You can now make longer edit summaries. [三六]

Changes later this week

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [三七]
On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [三八][三九]
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [四〇]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年三月五日（一）一七時一二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11[纂]

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

3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [四一]
Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [四二]
Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [四三]
Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [四四]

Problems

The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [四五]

Changes later this week

You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [四六]
It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [四七][四八]
A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [四九][五〇][五一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年三月一二日（一）一九時四三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12[纂]

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

On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [五二]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 二〇三月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 二一三月. It will be on all wikis from 二二三月 (calendar).

Meetings

There is no Editing team meeting this week.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 二一三月 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [五三][五四]
In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年三月一九日（一）一五時〇三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13[纂]

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

Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [五五] [五六]
The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [五七]
TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [五八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [五九]
Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年三月二六日（一）二〇時〇四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14[纂]

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

Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [六〇][六一][六二]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [六三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [六四]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [六五][六六][六七]
AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [六八] [六九]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "篩選條件變更時自動重新讀取監視清單（需要使用 JavaScript）" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [七〇]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [七一]
You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [七二]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [七三][七四]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年四月二日（一）一九時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15[纂]

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

Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [七五]
You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [七六]
The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [七七]
Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [七八]

Problems

The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [七九]
For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [八〇]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [八一]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年四月九日（一）一八時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16[纂]

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

Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [八二]
Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [八三][八四]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [八五]
Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [八六]
Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年四月一六日（一）一五時二〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17[纂]

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

All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [八七]
The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [八八]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

<mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [八九]
The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年四月二三日（一）一八時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18[纂]

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [九〇]

Problems

We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [九一]

Changes later this week

You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [九二]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [九三]
You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the 在修 section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [九四]
There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [九五][九六][九七]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年四月三〇日（一）一六時一八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19[纂]

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 Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [九八]

Problems

The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [九九]

Changes later this week

The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [一〇〇]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [一〇一][一〇二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年五月七日（一）一六時二七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20[纂]

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

Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [一〇三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [一〇四]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年五月一四日（一）二二時二二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21[纂]

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 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年五月二一日（一）一七時三三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22[纂]

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

You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [一〇五][一〇六]
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [一〇七]
Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [一〇八]
Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [一〇九]
There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [一一〇]

Problems

Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [一一一]

Changes later this week

There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [一一二]
A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [一一三]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [一一四]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [一一五]
A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [一一六]
Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [一一七][一一八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年五月二九日（二）一二時四〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23[纂]

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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [一一九]
Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [一二〇][一二一]
Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [一二二]

Problems

You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [一二三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [一二四][一二五]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年六月四日（一）二一時五四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24[纂]

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

In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [一二六]
There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [一二七]

Problems

The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [一二八]

Changes later this week

The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [一二九][一三〇]

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年六月一一日（一）二一時五五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25[纂]

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

Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [一三一]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [一三二][一三三]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [一三四][一三五]
All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [一三六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年六月一八日（一）二一時四七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27[纂]

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 database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [一三七]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [一三八]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年七月三日（二）〇〇時四六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28[纂]

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

WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [一三九]
The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [一四〇]
All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [一四一]

Problems

When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [一四二]
Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [一四三]

Changes later this week

When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [一四四][一四五]
On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [一四六]
When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [一四七]
Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [一四八]
When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [一四九]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [一五〇]
Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [一五一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年七月九日（一）二三時一〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29[纂]

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

You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [一五二]
You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [一五三]
You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [一五四]

Changes later this week

Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [一五五]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年七月一六日（一）一六時〇一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30[纂]

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

When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [一五六]
Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [一五七]
Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [一五八]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 二四七月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 二五七月. It will be on all wikis from 二六七月 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 二五七月 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年七月二四日（二）〇九時四四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31[纂]

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [一五九]

Problems

Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [一六〇][一六一]
Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [一六二][一六三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 三一七月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 一八月. It will be on all wikis from 二八月 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 三一七月 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 一八月 at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年七月三〇日（一）一四時〇五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32[纂]

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

Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [一六四]

Problems

The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [一六五][一六六]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年八月六日（一）一九時三九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33[纂]

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

CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [一六七]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [一六八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年八月一三日（一）一七時五三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34[纂]

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 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [一六九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年八月二〇日（一）一六時四六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35[纂]

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

You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [一七〇]
Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [一七一]

Problems

Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [一七二]

Changes later this week

The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [一七三]
AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [一七四]
Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [一七五]
Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [一七六]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年八月二七日（一）一六時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36[纂]

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 user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [一七七][一七八]
There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [一七九][一八〇]
You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [一八一]
wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [一八二]
When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [一八三]

Problems

UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [一八四]
You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [一八五]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [一八六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年九月三日（一）一六時四八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37[纂]

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

When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [一八七]

Problems

Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [一八八]
Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [一八九]
<maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [一九〇]
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [一九一]
When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [一九二]

Changes later this week

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年九月一〇日（一）二二時三六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38[纂]

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 Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [一九三]
MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [一九四]

Problems

You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [一九五]

Changes later this week

Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [一九六]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年九月一七日（一）二一時五八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39[纂]

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 preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [一九七]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年九月二四日（一）一五時二三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40[纂]

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

Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [一九八][一九九]

Problems

New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [二〇〇][二〇一]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一〇月一日（一）一七時三五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41[纂]

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [二〇二]

Problems

There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [二〇三]

Changes later this week

Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一〇月八日（一）二三時三八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42[纂]

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

Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [二〇四]
Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [二〇五]

Changes later this week

When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [二〇六]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [二〇七]
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一〇月一五日（一）二二時四一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43[纂]

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 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一〇月二二日（一）二三時一二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44[纂]

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

You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [二〇八]

Problems

Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [二〇九]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [二一〇][二一一]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一〇月二九日（一）二〇時〇九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45[纂]

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

You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [二一二]

Changes later this week

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [二一三]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一一月五日（一）一七時二九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46[纂]

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

Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [二一四]

Problems

You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [二一五][二一六][二一七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [二一八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一一月一二日（一）一九時二二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48[纂]

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

On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [二一九]

Changes later this week

The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [二二〇]
Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [二二一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [二二二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一一月二六日（一）二二時二二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49[纂]

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

Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [二二三]
Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [二二四]
You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [二二五]
When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [二二六][二二七]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一二月三日（一）一六時一三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50[纂]

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

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [二二八][二二九]
When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [二三〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一二月一〇日（一）一七時三四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [二三一][二三二]
Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [二三三]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

<ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [二三四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [二三五]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一八年一二月一七日（一）二〇時三五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [二三六]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [二三七]
codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [二三八]
On several wikis, an account named "防濫用過濾器" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

In AbuseFilter, the "受限" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [二三九]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一月七日（一）一八時三〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03[纂]

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

You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [二四〇][二四一]
You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [二四二][二四三]
Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [二四四]

Problems

When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [二四五]

Changes later this week

You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [二四六]
The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 二〇一九年一月一四日（一）一七時五五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [二四七]

Recent changes

The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category 有未審閱翻譯的頁面 to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [二四八]
MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [二四九][二五〇]
Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [二五一]

Changes later this week

You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [二五二]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一月二一日（一）二〇時三四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05[纂]

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 servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [二五三]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一月二八日（一）一八時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-06[纂]

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

It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [二五四]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年二月四日（一）一七時一二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07[纂]

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

You can use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年二月一一日（一）一八時四六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08[纂]

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

When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [二五五]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [二五六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年二月一八日（一）二三時一四分 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking[纂]

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

First, sign up your group here.
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 二〇一九年二月二一日（四）一五時〇九分 (UTC)[回覆]

Tech News: 2019-09[纂]

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 version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [二五七]

Changes later this week

When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [二五八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年二月二五日（一）二一時一七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10[纂]

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 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [二五九][二六〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年三月四日（一）一六時三八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11[纂]

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

Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua function or the #statements parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems

Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [二六一]
Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [二六二][二六三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年三月一一日（一）一九時二九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12[纂]

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

When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [二六四][二六五]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [二六六]
Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年三月一八日（一）一九時四四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13[纂]

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [二六七]

Problems

There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [二六八]
The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [二六九]
Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [二七〇]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年三月二五日（一）一八時〇五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14[纂]

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

Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [二七一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年四月一日（一）一六時二九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15[纂]

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

More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [二七二][二七三]

Problems

You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [二七四]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [二七五]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [二七六]

Changes later this week

When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [二七七]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [二七八]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [二七九]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [二八〇][二八一]
The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年四月八日（一）一八時二四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16[纂]

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

All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [二八二][二八三]
You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年四月一五日（一）二三時〇〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17[纂]

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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [二八四][二八五][二八六]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [二八七]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [二八八][二八九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年四月二三日（二）一九時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18[纂]

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [二九〇][二九一]

Problems

Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [二九二]

Changes later this week

You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [二九三]
When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [二九四]
You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [二九五]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [二九六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年四月二九日（一）二二時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19[纂]

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

Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [二九七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年五月六日（一）一六時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-20[纂]

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 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年五月一四日（二）〇〇時四九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21[纂]

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 report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [二九八][二九九]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [三〇〇][三〇一]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 二一五月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 二二五月. It will be on all wikis from 二三五月 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 二二五月 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [三〇二]
The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [三〇三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年五月二〇日（一）一三時〇四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22[纂]

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

Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [三〇四][三〇五]
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).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年五月二七日（一）一五時三四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-23[纂]

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

You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [三〇六]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [三〇七]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [三〇八][三〇九]

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [三一〇]

Changes later this week

Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [三一一]
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).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年六月三日（一）一五時二五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24[纂]

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

When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [三一二][三一三]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [三一四]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [三一五]

Problems

Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [三一六]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年六月一〇日（一）一七時〇七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25[纂]

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

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [三一七]

Changes later this week

MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [三一八]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [三一九]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [三二〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年六月一七日（一）二〇時三八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26[纂]

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

The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [三二一]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [三二二]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年六月二四日（一）一七時三〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27[纂]

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 development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [三二三]

Problems

Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [三二四]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [三二五]

Changes later this week

You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [三二六]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年七月一日（一）二一時二三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28[纂]

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

For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [三二七]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [三二八]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [三二九]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [三三〇]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [三三一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年七月八日（一）二〇時一三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29[纂]

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [三三二]

Changes later this week

The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called 防濫用過濾器 and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [三三三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年七月一五日（一）一五時三〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30[纂]

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

Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [三三四]

Problems

The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [三三五]

Changes later this week

Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [三三六]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [三三七][三三八]
With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [三三九][三四〇]
Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年七月二二日（一）一三時〇七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31[纂]

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

Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [三四一]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年七月二九日（一）二一時四二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-32[纂]

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 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [三四二][三四三]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年八月五日（一）一三時二五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33[纂]

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

Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [三四四]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [三四五]

Changes later this week

Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [三四六]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年八月一二日（一）一八時一九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-34[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [三四七]

Changes later this week

Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [三四八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [三四九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年八月一九日（一）一五時二一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36[纂]

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

You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [三五〇]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [三五一]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [三五二]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [三五三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 三九月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 四九月. It will be on all wikis from 五九月 (calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [三五四]

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 四九月 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [三五五]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [三五六]
You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [三五七]
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [三五八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年九月四日（三）〇九時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40[纂]

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

Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [三五九]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 一十月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 二十月. It will be on all wikis from 三十月 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 二十月 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [三六〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年九月三〇日（一）一六時四九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-41[纂]

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [三六一]

Problems

There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [三六二]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一〇月七日（一）一五時三五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42[纂]

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

You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [三六三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [三六四]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一〇月一四日（一）二三時三三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43[纂]

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 API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [三六五]

Problems

There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [三六六]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [三六七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一〇月二一日（一）一四時二七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44[纂]

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

You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [三六八][三六九]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [三七〇][三七一]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 二九十月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 三〇十月. It will be on all wikis from 三一十月 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 三〇十月 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [三七二]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一〇月二八日（一）一六時一一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45[纂]

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

At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [三七三]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [三七四]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一一月四日（一）一六時四七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46[纂]

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

MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一一月一一日（一）二二時〇三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47[纂]

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

You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [三七五]

Changes later this week

You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一一月一八日（一）二〇時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48[纂]

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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [三七六]
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [三七七]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [三七八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一一月二五日（一）一六時五一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49[纂]

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

Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [三七九]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [三八〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一二月二日（一）一六時五八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50[纂]

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

Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [三八一]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [三八二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一二月九日（一）一六時三七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51[纂]

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

The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [三八三]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [三八四]

Changes later this week

You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [三八五]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [三八六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一二月一七日（二）〇〇時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [三八七]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇一九年一二月二三日（一）二〇時〇四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02[纂]

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

When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [三八八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一月六日（一）二一時一九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03[纂]

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

You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [三八九]
Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "轉之特查" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "頁列" section. [三九〇]

Changes later this week

Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are 禁無簿 and 惟有秩. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [三九一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [三九二]
You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [三九三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery（討論）二〇二〇年一月一三日（一）一八時三九分 (UTC)[回覆]

Tech News: 2020-04[纂]

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 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [三九四]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [三九五]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一月二〇日（一）一九時四一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05[纂]

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

Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [三九六][三九七]
Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [三九八]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一月二七日（一）一八時五二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06[纂]

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 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年二月三日（一）二〇時〇四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07[纂]

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 version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [三九九]

Problems

There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [四〇〇]

Changes later this week

The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [四〇一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年二月一〇日（一）一九時一〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08[纂]

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

Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [四〇二][四〇三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年二月一七日（一）一六時一七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09[纂]

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 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes

There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年二月二四日（一）二〇時五九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10[纂]

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

Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [四〇四]

Changes later this week

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [四〇五]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [四〇六]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [四〇七]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 三三月. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 四三月. It will be on all wikis from 五三月 (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [四〇八]
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [四〇九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年三月三日（二）〇〇時三五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11[纂]

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 search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [四一〇][四一一][四一二]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [四一三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年三月九日（一）一七時一四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12[纂]

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 API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [四一四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [四一五][四一六]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年三月一六日（一）二一時一七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13[纂]

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

Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [四一七][四一八]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes

There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年三月二三日（一）一七時〇七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14[纂]

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 beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [四一九]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [四二〇]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [四二一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年三月三〇日（一）一七時二五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15[纂]

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 a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [四二二]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes

MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [四二三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年四月六日（一）一九時〇二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16[纂]

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

You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [四二四]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [四二五]
You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [四二六]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [四二七]

Problems

There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [四二八][四二九][四三〇]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [四三一]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年四月一三日（一）一五時三〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [四三二]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [四三三]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [四三四]
The font in the diffs will change. [四三五]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年四月二〇日（一）一八時四四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-19[纂]

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

Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [四三六]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [四三七]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [四三八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年五月四日（一）一六時五九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20[纂]

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

Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [四三九]

Problems

Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [四四〇]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [四四一][四四二]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes

JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [四四三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年五月一一日（一）二〇時四〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21[纂]

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 you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [四四四][四四五]

Problems

There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [四四六]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [四四七][四四八]

Changes later this week

The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [四四九]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [四五〇]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [四五一]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年五月一八日（一）一七時一八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22[纂]

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 visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [四五二]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年五月二五日（一）一四時一七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23[纂]

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 beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [四五三]

Problems

There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [四五四][四五五][四五六]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [四五七]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [四五八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年六月一日（一）二二時三一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24[纂]

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

Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [四五九]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [四六〇]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [四六一][四六二]

Changes later this week

You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [四六三]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [四六四]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年六月八日（一）二一時一一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25[纂]

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

Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [四六五]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [四六六]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [四六七]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [四六八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年六月一五日（一）二一時三七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26[纂]

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 are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [四六九]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [四七〇]

Changes later this week

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [四七一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [四七二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年六月二二日（一）一八時四八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27[纂]

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

Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [四七三]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [四七四]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年六月二九日（一）一六時三〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28[纂]

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

The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [四七五]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes

Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [四七六]
The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年七月六日（一）二〇時一八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29[纂]

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

Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [四七七]

Problems

Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [四七八][四七九]

Changes later this week

Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [四八〇]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [四八一][四八二][四八三][四八四]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年七月一三日（一）一六時二九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30[纂]

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

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [四八五]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [四八六]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [四八七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

There is a 付梓 link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [四八八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年七月二〇日（一）一九時一三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31[纂]

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [四八九]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck 使用舊版Vector in your local or global preferences in section 外觀偏好設定. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [四九〇][四九一]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [四九二]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [四九三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年七月二七日（一）一三時五二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32[纂]

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

All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [四九四]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [四九五]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "使用舊版Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [四九六]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [四九七]

Changes later this week

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [四九八]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [四九九]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [五〇〇]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年八月三日（一）一五時四三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33[纂]

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

FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [五〇一]

Problems

The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [五〇二]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [五〇三][五〇四]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年八月一〇日（一）一六時〇六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34[纂]

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 you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [五〇五]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [五〇六]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [五〇七][五〇八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年八月一七日（一）二〇時四一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35[纂]

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 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年八月二四日（一）一七時五九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-36[纂]

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

This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [五〇九][五一〇]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年八月三一日（一）二〇時一二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37[纂]

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

Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [五一一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [五一二]

Future changes

The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [五一三]
The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [五一四][五一五]
Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年九月七日（一）一六時〇〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38[纂]

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

The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [五一六][五一七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年九月一四日（一）一六時一九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39[纂]

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 tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [五一八][五一九]

Changes later this week

The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [五二〇]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年九月二一日（一）二一時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40[纂]

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

Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [五二一]
Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [五二二]

Problems

Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [五二三]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [五二四]
You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年九月二八日（一）二一時二四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41[纂]

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 tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [五二五]

Problems

There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [五二六]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [五二七]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [五二八]

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [五二九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一〇月五日（一）一六時二五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42[纂]

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

Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [五三〇][五三一][五三二]

Changes later this week

Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [五三三][五三四]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [五三五]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一〇月一二日（一）一五時二五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43[纂]

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 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [五三六]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon 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. [五三七]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一〇月一九日（一）一六時三二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44[纂]

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

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [五三八]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [五三九]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [五四〇]
There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "已被回退" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [五四一]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [五四二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一〇月二六日（一）一七時三九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45[纂]

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

You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [五四三]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [五四四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [五四五]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [五四六]

Future changes

A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [五四七]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一一月二日（一）一六時一〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46[纂]

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

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [五四八]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [五四九][五五〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一一月九日（一）一五時五〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47[纂]

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

Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [五五一][五五二]

Changes later this week

If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [五五三]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一一月一六日（一）一五時三七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48[纂]

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

Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [五五四]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [五五五]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一一月二三日（一）一七時一九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49[纂]

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 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [五五六][五五七]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [五五八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一一月三〇日（一）一七時四五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50[纂]

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

You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [五五九][五六〇]

Changes later this week

Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [五六一][五六二]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一二月七日（一）一六時一五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51[纂]

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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [五六三]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一二月一四日（一）二一時三四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [五六四]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [五六五]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [五六六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二〇年一二月二一日（一）二〇時五四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02[纂]

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

You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [五六七]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [五六八]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [五六九]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [五七〇]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [五七一]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [五七二]
Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [五七三]
CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [五七四]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一月一一日（一）一五時四二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03[纂]

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 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [五七五]
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一月一八日（一）一六時一〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04[纂]

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

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [五七六][五七七]

Changes later this week

Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [五七八]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一月二五日（一）一八時三一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05[纂]

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

IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [五七九]

Changes later this week

You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [五八〇]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [五八一][五八二]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [五八三]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [五八四][五八五]
Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年二月一日（一）二二時三九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06[纂]

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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [五八六]

Changes later this week

You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [五八七]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [五八八][五八九]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [五九〇]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [五九一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年二月八日（一）一七時四二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07[纂]

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 were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [五九二][五九三]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [五九四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年二月一五日（一）一七時五六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08[纂]

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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [五九五]
The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [五九六]

Problems

Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [五九七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年二月二三日（二）〇〇時一七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09[纂]

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 using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [五九八]
Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [五九九]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年三月一日（一）一九時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10[纂]

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

Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [六〇〇]
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [六〇一]

Problems

Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [六〇二]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [六〇三]

Future changes

There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [六〇四][六〇五]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年三月八日（一）一七時五一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11[纂]

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 that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [六〇六]

Problems

Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [六〇七][六〇八]
You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [六〇九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年三月一五日（一）二三時二三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12[纂]

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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "討論工具" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 二三三月 at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [六一〇]

Future changes

Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [六一一][六一二]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [六一三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年三月二二日（一）一六時五三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13[纂]

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

Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [六一四]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [六一五]

Problems

When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [六一六]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [六一七][六一八]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年三月二九日（一）一七時三一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14[纂]

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

Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [六一九]

Changes later this week

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. [六二〇]
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.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年四月五日（一）一九時四一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16[纂]

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. [六二一][六二二]
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. [六二三][六二四][六二五]
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. [六二六]
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.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年四月一九日（一）一六時四九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17[纂]

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. [六二七][六二八][六二九]

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年四月二六日（一）二一時二五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18[纂]

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. [六三〇]
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. [六三一]

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. [六三二][六三三]
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. [六三四]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年五月三日（一）一五時四三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19[纂]

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.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年五月一〇日（一）一五時一〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20[纂]

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. [六三五] [六三六] [六三七]
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. [六三八][六三九]
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. [六四〇]

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. [六四一]
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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年五月一七日（一）一三時四九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21[纂]

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年五月二四日（一）一七時〇七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22[纂]

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. [六四二]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年五月三一日（一）一七時〇六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23[纂]

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. [六四三][六四四][六四五]
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. [六四六]
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. [六四七][六四八]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年六月七日（一）二〇時〇三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24[纂]

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. [六四九]
Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [六五〇]

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. [六五一]
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. [六五二][六五三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年六月一四日（一）二〇時二六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25[纂]

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. [六五四]

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. [六五五]

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年六月二一日（一）一五時四九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26[纂]

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. [六五六]
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. [六五七]

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. [六五八][六五九]

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. [六六〇][六六一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年六月二八日（一）一六時三二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-27[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [六六二]

Problems

InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [六六三]

Changes later this week

The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [六六四][六六五]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [六六六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年七月五日（一）一七時三三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29[纂]

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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [六六七][六六八]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [六六九]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年七月一九日（一）一五時三二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30[纂]

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

A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference 啟用響應模式. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年七月二六日（一）二一時一一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31[纂]

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 your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [六七〇][六七一]

Changes later this week

When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [六七二]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for 討論工具 will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年八月二日（一）二〇時四七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32[纂]

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

You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [六七三]

Changes later this week

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [六七四]
Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [六七五]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年八月九日（一）一六時二一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33[纂]

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

You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [六七六]

Problems

There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [六七七][六七八][六七九]

Changes later this week

A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [六八〇]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [六八一]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年八月一六日（一）一九時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34[纂]

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 Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年八月二三日（一）二一時五九分 (UTC)

Read-only reminder[纂]

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. 感謝您！

二〇二一年八月二四日（二）二〇時三五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35[纂]

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

Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:繪製樂譜錯誤的頁面 on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems

Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [六八二]

Changes later this week

The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [六八三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年八月三〇日（一）一六時〇二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36[纂]

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 wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [六八四]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [六八五][六八六]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年九月六日（一）一五時二〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37[纂]

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

45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [六八七]
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [六八八]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [六八九]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [六九〇]
The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [六九一][六九二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年九月一三日（一）一五時三六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38[纂]

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

Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [六九三]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [六九四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [六九五]

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "討論工具" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [六九六]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年九月二〇日（一）一八時三二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39[纂]

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

iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [六九七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [六九八]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "討論工具" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [六九九]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年九月二七日（一）二二時二三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-40[纂]

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

A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [七〇〇]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [七〇一]
The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [七〇二]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [七〇三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一〇月四日（一）一六時三二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41[纂]

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 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

Meetings

You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一〇月一一日（一）一五時三〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42[纂]

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

Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一〇月一八日（一）二〇時五四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-43[纂]

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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [七〇四]
The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [七〇五]

Meetings

You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一〇月二五日（月）二〇時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44[纂]

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 limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [七〇六]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一一月一日（一）二〇時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45[纂]

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

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [七〇七][七〇八]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [七〇九]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一一月八日（一）二〇時三六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46[纂]

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

Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [七一〇]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [七一一]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一一月一五日（一）二二時〇六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47[纂]

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

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一一月二二日（一）二〇時〇二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48[纂]

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 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一一月二九日（一）二一時一五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49[纂]

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

MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [七一二]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [七一三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一二月六日（一）二一時五九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50[纂]

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 are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [七一四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一二月一三日（一）二二時二七分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [七一五]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [七一六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二一年一二月二〇日（一）二二時〇六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02[纂]

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

A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [七一七]
Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [七一八]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [七一九]
Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [七二〇]
At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [七二一]
The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [七二二] [七二三]
Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [七二四]
The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年一月一一日（二）〇一時二三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03[纂]

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

When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "檢視連結" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "自動訂閱話題". [七二五]
When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年一月一七日（一）一九時五五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04[纂]

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 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [七二六]

Events

You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年一月二四日（一）二一時三八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05[纂]

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). [七二七]

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

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年一月三一日（一）一七時四二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06[纂]

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. [七二八]

Problems

A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年二月七日（一）二一時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07[纂]

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. [七二九]

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).
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. [七三〇]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年二月一四日（一）一九時一八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08[纂]

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

Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [七三一]
At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [七三二]
You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [七三三]
There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [七三四][七三五]
Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [七三六]
Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年二月二一日（一）一九時一二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09[纂]

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

When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [七三七]
Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [七三八][七三九]
The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [七四〇]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年二月二八日（一）二二時五九分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10[纂]

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 a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [七四一]

Changes later this week

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

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年三月七日（一）二一時一六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11[纂]

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

In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [七四二][七四三]

Problems

There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [七四四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "誌". [七四五]
Access to 特殊:修訂刪除 has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [七四六]
On the 特殊:覽刪 pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [七四七]

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [七四八]

Events

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年三月一四日（一）二二時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12[纂]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New code release schedule for this week

There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [七四九]
The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [七五〇]

Future changes

Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [七五一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年三月二一日（一）一六時〇一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13[纂]

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 simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [七五二][七五三]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年三月二八日（一）一九時五五分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-14[纂]

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

For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the 特殊:監修 feed. This bug has been fixed. [七五四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [七五五]
Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年四月四日（一）二一時〇一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15[纂]

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 public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [七五六][七五七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年四月一一日（一）一九時四四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16[纂]

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 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [七五八]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [七五九] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [七六〇] [七六一] [七六二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年四月一八日（一）二三時一二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17[纂]

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

On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [七六三][七六四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [七六五]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年四月二五日（一）二二時五六分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18[纂]

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

On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [七六六][七六七]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [七六八] [七六九]
If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [七七〇]
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年五月二日（一）一九時三四分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19[纂]

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

You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [七七一]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [七七二]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [七七三]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [七七四]
Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年五月九日（一）一五時二二分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20[纂]

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

Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [七七五]
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [七七六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年五月一六日（一）一八時五八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21[纂]

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

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [七七七]
The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [七七八]

Problems

The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [七七九]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [七八〇]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [七八一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年五月二四日（二）〇〇時二一分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22[纂]

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

In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [七八二]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [七八三][七八四]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [七八五]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [七八六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年五月三〇日（一）二〇時二八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23[纂]

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 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [七八七]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年六月七日（二）〇二時四六分 (UTC)

2022年第24期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更新

目前所有维基站点都可以使用Kartographer地图。此地图已可以兼容启用了修订巡查的页面。 [七八八][七八九]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki新版本將於6月14日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，及於6月15日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，並於6月16日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
出于定期数据库维护的原因，某些维基站点将进入只读模式数分钟。维护将于6月14日6:00 (UTC) 对s6数据库组的维基站点进行。 [七九〇]
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括阿布哈兹语维基百科、亚齐语维基百科、阿迪格语维基百科、南非语维基百科、阿肯语维基百科、阿勒曼尼语维基百科、阿姆哈拉语维基百科、阿拉贡语维基百科、古英语维基百科、叙利亚语维基百科、埃及阿拉伯语维基百科、阿斯图里亚斯语维基百科、Atikamekw语维基百科、阿瓦尔语维基百科、艾马拉语维基百科、阿塞拜疆语维基百科、南阿塞拜疆语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [七九一]
新话题工具很快将在绝大多数维基部署供所有编者使用。您可以在工具中或-{zh-hans:参数设置;zh-hant:偏好設定}-中关闭该功能。 [七九二][七九三]

未来会议

下一次关于Vector（2022）与网页团队的开放会议将于6月13日举行。目前举行会议的计划如下：6月28日、7月12日、7月26日。

未來更新

Vector 2022皮肤预计将在7月底於更多站点上成为默认皮肤。接下来的几周内将展開讨论，以确定如何调整这一变更，适应更多社群的需要。各站点可以选择在任何时候基于社群需要撤销这一变更。了解更多。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年六月一三日（一）一六時五九分 (UTC)

2022年第25期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

目前在维基百科Android客户端中，您可以通过溢出菜单（点击形如三个点的图标）中的一个选项来一次编辑一整个页面。 [七九四]
近期的一些对数据库的变更可能会影响通过Quarry工具做出的查询。在英文维基百科、维基共享资源和维基数据中针对site_stats的查询需要更新。了解更多信息。
您目前可以在防滥用过滤器中使用user_global_editcount变量来避免影响到在全域范围内活跃（但在本地编辑较少）的用户。 [七九五]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於6月21日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於6月22日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於6月23日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
使用非响应式皮肤的用户（如MonoBook或Vector）可能注意到了在移动设备上默认缩放级别的一些微小变化。此举旨在优化缩放功能，确保所有的界面元素都可以呈现在页面上（如Vector 2022的“目录”）。罕见情况下，这可能会对您访问页面造成一些麻烦；如果您就此遇到了问题，请@Jon (WMF)以进行站内沟通。 [七九六]

未來更新

讨论工具的测试功能将在7月更新，讨论界面将有较大的变化。您可以了解部分建议的变更。
Parsoid输出的HTML将不再使用不同的typeof属性值来注解文件链接；相应的，所有的文件链接都会使用mw:File这一注解标记。工具作者应调整依赖于以下注解标记的代码：mw:Image、mw:Audio和mw:Video。 [七九七]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年六月二〇日（一）二〇時一八分 (UTC)

2022年第26期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

维基媒体企业API服务目前已提供自助服务账户，其包含免费按需请求和月度快照服务（参阅API文档）。社群仍可通过数据库转储和维基媒体云服务访问相关数据。
创建本地模板和模块后，所有维基媒体站点目前均可在Lua中使用由维基数据提供的词典数据。欢迎在项目讨论页上参与讨论。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本將於6月28日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於6月29日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於6月30日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
出于定期数据库维护的原因，某些维基站点将进入只读模式数分钟。维护将于6月28日6:00 (UTC) 对s7数据库组的维基站点进行。 [七九八]
出于主数据库割接的原因，部分全域或跨项目服务将进入只读模式数分钟。割接将于6月30日6:00 (UTC)进行。受影响的服务包括内容翻译、通知、结构式讨论、Growth实验等。 [七九九]
用户将可以在移动版皮肤下对可排序表格的-{zh-hans:列;zh-hant:欄}-进行排序。 [八〇〇]

未来会议

下一次关于Vector（2022）与网页团队的开放会议将于6月28日举行。目前举行会议的计划如下：7月12日、7月26日。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年六月二七日（一）二〇時〇三分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27[纂]

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 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [八〇一]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年七月四日（一）一九時三二分 (UTC)

2022年第28期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

Vector 2022皮肤下的页面标题目前已显示于诸如“讨论”、“阅读”、“编辑”、“查看历史”等选项卡的上方。了解更多。 [八〇二]
目前您可以简单的查看某一站点的配置，并对比两个站点配置不同的地方。例如：查看日文维基词典的配置、对比西班牙语及世界语维基百科的配置。本地社群可讨论并提议变更自己站点的配置。您可以通过搜索MediaWiki.org来了解各个配置变量的详细信息。 [八〇三]
反骚扰工具团队近期已将IP信息功能作为测试功能部署于所有站点。这一功能让反破坏用户可以获取IP地址的信息。请访问如何找到并使用此工具页面了解最新信息，并使用工具中的链接反馈使用体验。

本周晚些时候的更新

本周没有新的MediaWiki版本。
出于定期数据库维护的原因，某些维基站点将进入只读模式数分钟。维护将于7月12日7:00 (UTC) 对s3数据库组的维基站点进行。

未來更新

讨论工具的测试功能将在7月更新，讨论界面将有较大的变化。您可以了解部分建议的变更。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年七月一一日（一）一九時二五分 (UTC)

2022年第29期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

問題

本周将会修复上周移动版界面中丢失的附近页面。 [八〇四]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki新版本將於7月19日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，及於7月20日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，並於7月21日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。

将来更新

技术决策论坛正在寻找社区代表。你可以在8月12日前通过维基或者通过电邮到TDFSupport@wikimedia.org申请。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年七月一八日（一）二三時〇〇分 (UTC)

2022年第30期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更新

www.wikibooks.org和www.wikiquote.org的门户页面现在使用自动更新系统。其他项目门户也会在未来几个月更新。 [八〇五]

问题

上周，s7数据库组的维基站点遭遇了持续数分钟的只读模式，该故障是由这些站点主数据库的一次紧急交换造成的。 [八〇六]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于7月26日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于7月27日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于7月28日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
旧版Vector和Vector 2022皮肤的外部链接图标会有一些细微调整。新图标使用更简单的图形，以保证低清显示设备上的辨识度。 [八〇七]
若用户已经被封禁，管理员现在会在其用户页上看到“變更封鎖”和“赦簿”按钮，而不只是一个“禁簿”按钮。 [八〇八]

未来会议

下一次关于Vector（2022）与网页团队的开放会议将于明天（7月26日）举行。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年七月二五日（一）一九時二七分 (UTC)

2022年第31期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更新

由于-{zh-hans:支持;zh-hant:支援;}-了Phantom标签，改进过的LaTeX数学-{zh-hans:渲染;zh-hant:呈現;}-功能将于各个站点可用。该项工作完成了2022年社群愿望清单调查的第59号愿望的一部分。

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于8月2日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于8月3日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于8月4日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
-{zh-hans:实时;zh-hant:即時;}-预览功能将作为测试功能在group0组的站点中可用。此功能的开发旨在完成社群愿望清单调查的其中一项提议。

未來更新

讨论工具的测试功能将在8月更新，讨论界面将有较大的变化。您可以了解部分建议的变更。

未来会议

本週将会有三场有关Vector（2022）的会议，每场会议都有现场口译。星期二会提供俄语口译。星期四则是阿拉伯语和西班牙语。了解如何加入。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年八月一日（一）二一時二二分 (UTC)

2022年第32期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

GUS2Wiki将特殊:小工具使用統計上的内容复制至另一个页面，使用户可以查看统计数据变化的历史。如果您所在的项目尚未在Project:GUS2Wiki的维基数据项上列出，您可以自己运行GUS2Wiki，或是提交请求以查看数据的更新。 [八〇九]

本周晚些时候的更新

本周没有新的MediaWiki版本。
出于定期数据库维护的原因，某些维基站点将进入只读模式数分钟。维护将分别于8月9日7:00 (UTC) 对s5数据库组的维基站点，和于8月11日7:00 (UTC) 对s2数据库组的维基站点进行。

未来会议

维基媒体黑客松将于8月12日至14日在线上举行。不要错过黑客松前的展示会，它可以帮助您了解项目以及寻找合作者。任何人都可以提议项目或主持会议。我们欢迎新手！

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年八月八日（一）一九時五〇分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33[纂]

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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [八一〇][八一一][八一二]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年八月一五日（一）二一時〇八分 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34[纂]

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

Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [八一三][八一四]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [八一五]

Future changes

The new [訂閱] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [八一六]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

二〇二二年八月二三日（二）〇〇時一三分 (UTC)

2022年第35期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

实时预览功能已经成为组2维基站点的Beta测试功能。这是响应其中一个社群愿望清单调查中的项目。需要注意，如果启用了该测试功能，可能会和一些特定的小工具有冲突。

问题

最近几个月，Commons、Wikidata、英文维基百科的特殊:彙統的统计数目有些异常。现已修复。 [八一七]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于8月30日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于8月31日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月1日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
部分维基站点将由于数据库切换的原因进入只读模式数分钟。维护将分别于8月30日07:00 (UTC)对s6数据库组的站点，和9月1日07:00 (UTC)对s7数据库组的站点进行。

未來更新

维基媒体基金会希望通过搭建隐秘伤害报告系统（Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS)）来改善社群在报告伤害事件时，能更容易和安全地进行。你可以根据提供的问题在讨论页上反馈。如果你有经过过需要报告或已报告的伤害事件，欢迎参加PIRS访谈来分享你的经验。登记的话请电邮给Madalina Ana。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年八月二九日（一）二三時〇五分 (UTC)

2022年第36期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本將於9月6日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於9月7日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於9月8日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
出于定期数据库维护的原因，某些维基站点将进入只读模式数分钟。9月6日7:00 (UTC) 对s1数据库组的维基站点进行维护，9月8日7:00 (UTC) 对s3数据库组的维基站点进行维护。
出于节省空间的考虑，只含有一个选项卡的特殊页面在Vector-2022皮肤下将不再显示选项卡条。仍被小工具使用的选项卡所在的行将继续显示。向CSS id为#p-namespaces添加元素的小工具应使用mw.util.addPortletLink函数作为替代。向前述的id添加的样式应同时施加于该行的新id#p-associated-pages。参看相关示例。 [八一八][八一九]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年九月五日（一）二三時二二分 (UTC)

2022年第37期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更新

搜索功能服务器已完成一次大版本更新。如果您在搜索时发现任何问题，请在Phabricator上报告。 [八二〇]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月13日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月14日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月15日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
-{zh-hans:语法高亮;zh-hant:語法突顯;}-功能的解析器函数现在被视为高开销函数。单个页面上只能同时存在500个高开销函数调用。超出此限制的页面将会添加到此追踪分类。 [八二一]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年九月一三日（二）〇一時五〇分 (UTC)

2022年第38期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

templatelinks数据表中的tl_namespace和tl_title字段已被弃用，依赖于以上两个字段的查询应使用名为tl_target_id的新规范化字段。请参阅T299417了解更多信息。这是对链接表规范化的一部分。 [八二二][八二三]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月20日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月21日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月22日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
在Kartographer地图中，您可以为常用兴趣点的标记使用图标。在星期二，先前的图标集将会升级到版本maki 7.2；将有约100种新图标可用。此外，出于清晰度考虑，所有现有图标都进行了更新，使其在各个语言环境中更好地工作。 [八二四][八二五]

将来更新

在维基媒体国际会议的其中一个群组讨论中，有30多人讨论了如何使维基媒体运动中的内容合作软件更具可持续性。志愿开发者可以接受什么样的支持？请阅读摘要并留下您的反馈。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年九月一九日（一）二二時一六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第39期技术新闻[纂]

最新技术新闻来自维基媒体技术社群。请将这些变化转告其他用户。不是所有的变化都将影响您。翻译亦已提供。

最近更改

Parsoid客户端需要更新，以支持-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-中rel属性里面以空格分隔多值的特性，详情请参与T315209。

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月27日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月28日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月29日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
可视化差异将对于除维基词典和维基百科项目以外的全部用户可用。 [八二六]
阿拉伯语、孟加拉语、汉语、法语、海地克里奥尔语、希伯来语、韩语和越南语维基百科的移动版的讨论页将会有所变化，变得更易用和提供更多信息。 [八二七] [八二八]
模組命名空间下，以.json结尾的页面的内容类型将会自动为JSON类型，如同在使用者和MediaWiki命名空间下那样。 [八二九]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年九月二七日（二）〇〇時三〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第40期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

Kartographer现在能够通过Wikidata的QID或SPARQL查询获得地理点，之前只能获得地理区域或地理线。 [八三〇] [八三一]
2022最酷工具獎現正接受提名，您可以在10月12日前推薦工具。

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月4日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于10月5日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于10月6日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
阿拉伯语、孟加拉语、汉语、法语、海地克里奥尔语、希伯来语、韩语和越南语维基百科的移动版的讨论页将会有所变化，变得更易用和提供更多信息。（由于上周部署延迟） [八三二] [八三三]
scribunto-console API模块现在需要提供跨站请求伪造防护令牌。这个模块在文档记录为内部使用，不对外提供支持。 [5]
Vector 2002皮肤在最小的维基媒体项目作为默认皮肤启用。参见更多信息。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一〇月四日（二）〇〇時二三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第41期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於10月11日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於10月12日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於10月13日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
部分站点上，以完整大小显示的Kartographer地图将同时显示这一地点附近的相关条目。这一功能将在一段反馈期后在更多站点上部署。 [八三四][八三五]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二二年一〇月一〇日（一）一四時〇九分 (UTC)

2022年第42期技术新闻[纂]

來自維基媒體科技社區最新的技術新聞。請告訴其他用戶這些變化。并非所有的變化都會影響閣下。閣下也可參看其他語言的翻譯。

最新變更

最近实现的特性——搜索界面中的条目缩略图将限制只在维基百科项目启用。具体细节在T320510说明。 [八三六]
一个在搜索界面中加载条目缩略图出现问题的缺陷已被修复。具体细节在T320406说明。

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月18日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于10月19日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于10月20日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
Lua模组设计者可以通过mw.loadJsonData()从JSON页面页面中加载数据。 [八三七]
Lua模组设计者可以启用require( "strict" )来添加错误信息用于揭示一些可能的代码问题。这将会取代大多数维基项目的Module:No globals。 [八三八]

未來更新

讨论工具的Beta特性将会更新到大部分维基项目。在这次更新后“回覆”按钮会有些变化。 [八三九]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一〇月一七日（一）二一時四六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第43期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

Special:Search进行了一些小的排版调整，包括音频播放器的位置以及占位用图片的高度。具体细节请见T319230。
维基百科加入了新的-{zh-hans:参数设置;zh-hant:偏好設定}-项目，即是否在Special:Search中隐藏条目缩略图。具体细节请见T320337。

問題

* 上周由于硬件问题，三个维基（法语维基百科、日文维基百科、俄语维基百科）进入只读模式25分钟。 [八四〇] [八四一]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於10月25日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於10月26日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於10月27日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
部分维基站点将因主数据库切换而进入只读模式数分钟。维护将分别于10月25日07:00 (UTC)（受影响站点）和10月27日07:00 (UTC)（受影响站点）进行。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括阿萨姆语维基百科、巴什基尔语维基百科、巴厘语维基百科、巴伐利亚语维基百科、萨莫吉提亚语维基百科、中比科尔语维基百科、白俄罗斯语维基百科、旧白俄罗斯语维基百科、保加利亚语维基百科、博杰普尔语维基百科、比斯拉马语维基百科、班嘉语维基百科、班巴拉语维基百科、比什奴普莱利亚－曼尼浦尔语维基百科、布列塔尼语维基百科、波斯尼亚语维基百科、布吉语维基百科、布里亚特语维基百科、印尼语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [八四二]
从2022年10月26日（周三）开始，有Growth导师的维基将更新导师列表。导视系统的运作仍然如常。登记流程将会改变，同时将提供新的管理选项。另外，本次更新也简化了维基百科的导师系统创建流程。 [八四三][八四四][八四五]
标题首字母在Unicode 11中为小写字母的页面将被重命名或删除。受影响的页面列表位于m:Unicode 11 case map migration。更多信息请见T292552。
Vector 2022皮肤在规模较小的维基百科项目作为默认皮肤启用。参见更多信息。

未來更新

讨论回复工具和新话题工具不久后将加入特殊字符菜单。 [八四六]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一〇月二四日（一）二一時二三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第44期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更新

在Kartographer地图上使用键盘导航时，焦点将变得更加明显。 [八四七]
在特殊:監修上，您現在可以用「⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽」過濾器來隱藏新用戶創建日志。 [八四八]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于11月1日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org，11月2日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，11月3日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
在可視化編輯器中的地圖對話框有說明文字。 [八四九]
現在可以在可視化編輯器中使用下拉式選單選擇Kartographer地圖的語言。 [八五〇]
現在可以在可視化編輯器向Kartographer地圖加入標題。 [八五一]
現在可以在可視化編輯器隱藏Kartographer地圖的邊框。 [八五二]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一〇月三一日（一）二一時一五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第45期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

活動報名工具的新版本已經進入測試階段，歡迎大家到測試維基（testwiki）或者測試維基二號（test2wiki）做測試（這件工具的功能，是參加者和活動的籌辦者都會用的），試用之後如果有任何意見，請在相關計劃的討論頁告知我們。詳情請看計劃的網頁。 [八五三]

問題

上周有兩次,大約45分鐘，一些文件和縮略圖無法加載，上傳失敗，多出現于登錄的用戶。目前正在調查原因，很快會有一份事件報告。

本週後期變更

本週沒有MediaWiki的新版本。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一一月八日（二）〇〇時三二分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第46期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

在 Wikidata，如果满足某些条件，跨wiki链接现在可以指向重定向页面。这项新功能称为站点链接到重定向。当一个wiki使用一个页面来涵盖多个概念但另一个 wiki 使用更多页面来涵盖相同的概念时就能需要它。欢迎您对新提议指南的讨论页提供反馈。 [八五四]
www.wikinews.org、www.wikiversity.org、www.wikivoyage.org（维基新闻、维基学院、维基旅游）的门户站点已经使用自动更新系统来生成显示。 [八五五]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于11月15日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于11月16日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于11月17日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
模板页将会增加一个新链接用于直接“编辑模板数据”。 [八五六]

将来更新

已启用移动版讨论页工具的维基项目（这些）将会使用纯CSS风格来显示在讨论页顶部的任何模板。为了在移动设备上适配这些“讨论页小框”，你可以使用媒体查询（Media queries）实现，例如这个例子。 [八五七]
2023年1月开始，社区技术小组决定社群願望清單調查每两年举办一次，所以2024年不会举行活动收集和选定新需求。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一一月一四日（一）二一時五五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第47期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

搜索栏和Special:Search搜索结果中的条目缩略图将不再显示非自由图像，详情请参阅T320661。

本週後期變更

本週沒有MediaWiki的新版本。
部分维基站点将由于数据库切换的原因进入只读模式数分钟。维护将分别于11月22日07:00 (UTC)和11月24日07:00 (UTC)在s2数据库组的站点和s7数据库组的站点进行。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一一月二一日（一）二三時二二分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第48期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

“限制宽度模式”这一新选项已添加到Vector 2022年版皮肤。如果您的显示器宽度大于等于1600像素，该选项也会在每个页面上作为切换按钮出现。它允许为匿名和登录用户增加页面宽度。 [八五八]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于11月29日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于11月30日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于12月1日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
部分维基站点将由于数据库切换的原因进入只读模式数分钟。维护将分别于11月29日07:00 (UTC)和12月1日07:00 (UTC)在s3数据库组的站点和s1数据库组的站点进行。
以 SVG 图像格式显示的数学公式将不再向不支持其的浏览器提供PNG备选格式。这是世代系统现代化工作的一部分。在2018年2月前，仅显示PNG版本是默认选项。 [八五九][八六〇][八六一]
一些使用flagged revisions扩展的维基项目，用户贡献界面将会增加一个新选项框，允许用户只查看已审批的编辑。 [八六二]

将来更新

最早于下周，解析器输出的HTML内媒体文件的结构将会发生变化，这一变更将应用至除维基共享资源和元维基的组1维基项目中。本变更将会提升内容的可访问性，并使编写相关CSS更加容易。您可能需要更新站点CSS、用户脚本和小工具。关于如何检查、更新代码以及报告任何相关问题，请参见这里。 [八六三]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一一月二八日（一）二〇時〇三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第49期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

维基文库使用的ProofreadPage扩展使用了开源工具OpenSeadragon，后者的JavaScript API已被重大重写以支持动态加载图片。先前版本的API所提供的功能应仍能运作，但已不再被支持。用户脚本和小工具应迁移至新版本的API。有关新版本API所提供的功能，请参阅MediaWiki上的文档。 [八六四][八六五]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於12月6日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於12月7日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於12月8日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一二月六日（二）〇〇時四一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第50期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

移動設備上的討論頁計劃的 A/B 测试已经在15个维基百科上开始。移动設備网站上的一半编辑将可以使用回覆工具和其他功能。 [八六六]
新用戶名不能使用符號=，這是爲了讓用戶名更好的與模板兼容。現有的用戶名不會被影響。 [八六七]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于13 12月部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于14 12月部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于15 12月部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [八六八]

活動

第四届最酷工具獎將會在2022年12月16日17:00 UTC頒發！頒獎將會在YouTube上的MediaWiki 頻道直播，并會在結束後加入維基共享。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一二月一二日（一）二三時三四分 (UTC)[回覆]

2022年第51期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

技术新闻

因受節日影响，下期技术新闻将于2023年1月9日发布。

最近更改

过往在用户贡献界面，用户只能过滤查询带有特定标签的编辑，现在你可以做反向的查询了。这是2022年社群愿望清单调查的一个请求功能。 [八六九]
一个新功能允许小工具开发者为页面标题下方添加内容，这是功能已经能稳定地在各个皮肤中使用。文档见此。 [八七〇]
我们其中一台服务器已经迁移到由Kubernetes驱动的新设施中（详情）。更多维基项目将会在2023年头逐步迁移至这些新设施上。欢迎测试并反馈任何问题。 [八七一]

问题

上周由于數據庫问题，所有维基项目进入只读模式9分钟。 [八七二]

本週後期變更

本週和下週都沒有MediaWiki新版本。
“回覆”一词在一些维基项目的语言中长度很短，例如阿拉伯语（“ردّ”），这样使得讨论页上的討論工具按钮十分难用。对于这些语言项目将会增加一个箭头图标。只有在Beta测试功能启用设置的才会生效。 [八七三] [八七四]

未來更新

一些编辑可以被系统本身或者防濫用過濾器管理标记上标签。这些标签是连接到对应的帮助页面。不久将会改链接到最近更新界面并让用户能看到其他这样标记的编辑。这是2022年社群愿望清单调查的一个请求功能。 [八七五]
信任与安全工具团队分享了一个新计划用于构建私人事件报告系统。该系统将使编辑在受到骚扰或虐待时更容易寻求帮助。
Wikitest实时预览功能将于2023年1月9日当周对启用了2010Wikitest编辑器的用户启动Beta测试。到时是编辑器工具栏上的一个按钮功能。这是2021年社群愿望清单调查受欢迎功能的第4名。

活動

现在你可以报名Wikimedia黑客马拉松2023，将于5月19~21日在希腊雅典举行。你也可以在1月14日前申请赞助经费。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二二年一二月二〇日（二）〇〇時〇〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

Tech News: 2023-02[纂]

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

You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [八七六]
Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [八七七]
A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [八七八]
Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [八七九]
You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [八八〇]

Changes later this week

Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一月一〇日（二）〇一時〇七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第03期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

问题

页面历史界面上“前”的URL中参数将会从“diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]”替换为“diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID]”。这是为了解决当页面历史被标签过滤时链接指向不正确的差异的问题。由于此更改，某些用户脚本可能会出现异常。 [八八一]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于1月17日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于1月18日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于1月19日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
关于对话页的外观变更过去仅会被应用到討論:命名空间和使用者討論:命名空间，这些变更之后还会拓展到其他讨论页页面空间，例如維基大典討論:命名空间。对于一些非讨论页命名空间的讨论型页面，例如互助客栈，外观将不会发生变化。您可以调整您的设置（Beta测试特性）。 [八八二]
在维基文库，当Page命名空间的一个图片被缩放或平移时，链接到特定Index命名空间的Page命名空间的所有页面的图片都会记住应用这个设置。 [八八三]
Vector2022皮肤在英文维基百科对于桌面用户将会变成默认启用。这将会在UTC时间1月18日15:00生效。详情见此。

将来更新

2023年版的社区愿望清单调查邀请贡献者提出技术建议并对工具和改进进行投票，将于2023年1月23日 18:00 UTC 开始。您可以在社区愿望清单调查沙箱起草您的提案。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一月一七日（二）〇一時一〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第04期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

问题

上周，所有维基都出现了已登录用户和未缓存页面无法访问的问题，该问题持续了约15分钟。此次问题是操作时序失误导致的。 [八八四]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于1月24日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于1月25日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于1月26日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
如果启用了DiscussionTools（讨论工具）的测试功能，讨论页外观将会新增更多有关讨论活动的信息。 [八八五][八八六]
2023年版的社区愿望清单调查（CWS）邀请贡献者提出技术建议并对工具和改进进行投票，将于2023年1月23日18:00 UTC开始。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一月二三日（一）二三時四六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第05期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

问题

上周大概有15分钟一些用户无法登录或者编辑，这是由于会话保存问题导致的。 [八八七]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于1月31日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于2月1日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于2月2日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

将来更新

使用了本地化数字模式的引用的维基项目需要添加新的CSS配置，这会帮助对于编辑和阅读模式显示注脚数据的方式一致。如果你的维基项目倾向于用户自行解决，请阅读以下详情和复制里面的CSS例子使用，并且将维基站点名添加到列表中。否则，开发人员会于2月5日直接开始协助处理。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一月三一日（二）〇〇時〇五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第06期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

在Vector 2022皮肤中，登出用户的页面满宽切换开关，即使刷新页面或打开新窗口后，也能看到他的设置。这个功能只会对将Vector 2022设为默认皮肤的维基项目生效。 [八八八]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于2月7日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于2月8日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于2月9日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
往常，当切换主数据库服务器时会宣布一些维基站点会进入只读模式几分钟。现在我们不会在宣布这些事件，因为这几分钟影响不大。在周二、周四7:00 UTC将会继续切换工作。 [八八九]
使用Vector 2022皮肤访问所有维基站点时，已登录用户将会见到与浏览的页面相关的工具链接（例如：链入页面）在一个新的边栏菜单上，这个菜单会现在是屏幕的另一边。这个变动先前已经部署到捷克语、英语、越南语维基百科上。 [八九〇]
2023年社群願望清單調查将会在2023年2月6日18:00 UTC停止审阅新提案。提案者请尽快完成提案撰写，以预留时间进行翻译和复审。投票将于2月10日开始。

未來更新

小工具脚本和用户脚本将会能同时在桌面版和移动版加载，之前只能在桌面版加载的。建议维基站点管理员检查小工具设置适配变化，通过添加skins=…到小工具配置中以控制哪些小工具脚本不应在移动版上加载。详情见此。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年二月六日（一）一〇時二一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第07期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

问题

启用了编辑巡查功能的维基项目，在导师列表中由带有自动巡查权限的导师提交的变动没有被正确标记为已巡查。这将本周晚些时候修复。 [八九一]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于2月14日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于2月15日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于2月16日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
回复工具及讨论工具的其他部分将会部署给所有移动站点的用户使用。详情请看相关决定。 [八九二]

未來更新

所有维基项目在3月1日进入只读模式几分钟，计划在14:00 UTC进行。详情请留意技术新闻，具体会在当周前推送消息到相关维基项目。 [八九三][八九四][八九五]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年二月一四日（二）〇一時四九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第08期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

问题

上周，在对基金会云服务计划维护期间，不可预见的并发症迫使团队关闭所有工具 2-3 小时，以防止数据损坏。正在进行相应工作以防止将来出现类似问题。 [八九六]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于2月21日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于2月22日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于2月23日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
2023年社群願望清單調查的投票阶段将于2月24日18:00 UTC结束。结果将于2月28日公布。

将来更新

所有维基项目在3月1日进入只读模式几分钟，计划在14:00 UTC进行。详情请留意技术新闻，具体会在当周前推送消息到相关维基项目。 [八九七][八九八][八九九]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年二月二一日（二）〇一時五八分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第09期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

問題

Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [九〇〇][九〇一]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki新版本將於2月28日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，及於3月1日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，並於3月2日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
全部的維基將在3月1日14:00 UTC起短暫進入只读状态。 [九〇二]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年二月二七日（一）二三時四七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第10期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

社群愿望清单调查2023已经结束。技术社群已经公布了调查结果。并将在 2023 年 4 月提供最新情况。
一些使用语言转换器用于处理多书写文本的维基项目，会在页面源代码中使用自定义规则（尤其是中文维基百科）来控制转换逻辑，会导致目录不一致地应用这些规则，尤其是在Vector 2022皮肤中。这部分问题已经修复。 [九〇三]

本週後期更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于3月7日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于3月8日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于3月9日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
参数设置界面将会增加一个搜索系统，使你更容易地找到不同的选项。在移动版上更易用也将会实现。 [九〇四]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年三月六日（一）二三時五〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第11期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于3月14日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于3月15日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于3月16日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括（三宝颜查瓦卡诺语维基百科、闽东语维基百科、车臣语维基百科、宿务语维基百科、查莫罗语维基百科、切罗基语维基百科、夏延语维基百科、中库尔德语维基百科、科西嘉语维基百科、卡舒比语维基百科、教会斯拉夫语维基百科、楚瓦什语维基百科、威尔士语维基百科、意大利语维基百科）。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [九〇五][九〇六]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年三月一三日（一）二三時二〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第12期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

問題

上周，一些用户在加载图片缩略图时出现，这是由于缓存数据不正常导致。 [九〇七]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于3月21日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于3月22日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于3月23日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
一个连接到用户的特殊:中央認證页面将会添加到特殊:功績，一些用户脚本已经这样添加过，可能会形成冲突。这个功能请求来自于2023年社群愿望清单调查第17号投票项目。
特殊:濫用過濾器的编辑框默认可以调整大小了，这个功能请求来自于2023年社群愿望清单调查第80号投票项目。
管理员解封用户时其增加一个新选项，允许将用户的用户页添加到他们的监视列表中，这在特殊:解除封鎖和API接口一样有效。 [九〇八]

會議

你可以参加维基移动应用开发团队的下一次会议，会议上将会讨论现有特性和将来的路线图。会议于3月24日 17:00UTC举行，详细和如何参加见此。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年三月二一日（二）〇一時二六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第13期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

滥用过滤器的条件限制从1000提高到2000。 [九〇九]
一些全域滥用过滤器的操作将不再应用于本地项目。 [九一〇]
桌面版用户现在可以通过单击多寶菜单中的訂閱链接来订阅讨论页。如果您订阅了一个讨论页，当该讨论页上开始新话题时您会收到通知。这与将页面放入您的监视列表或订阅单个讨论是分开的。 [九一一]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于3月28日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于3月29日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于3月30日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

将来更新

您将能够在维基词典和维基百科的所有历史页面上选择可视化差异。 [九一二]
旧版移动版内容服务将于2023年7月移除。请开发人员在此之前换用Parsoid或其它 API，以确保服务能够继续。 [九一三]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年三月二八日（二）〇一時一三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第14期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群发布的最新技术新闻。请将这些变动转告其他用户。并非所有更改都会对您产生影响。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近变更

自动创建巴别扩展所使用的分类的系统有几处重要变动和修补。其中一处变动允许您给创建时自动生成的分类描述插入模板，来将新的分类划入其他分类下。 [九一四][九一五][九一六][九一七][九一八]

本周稍晚时期的变更

MediaWiki的新版本将于4月4日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于4月5日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于4月6日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
-{zh-cn:本周;zh-hk:本週;zh-tw:本週;}-起，部分旧浏览器将无法使用维基媒体wiki上的JavaScript。受影响的主要是Internet Explorer 11用户。如果您的电脑上有旧浏览器的话，您可以升级到更新版本。 [九一九]
不推荐使用的jquery.hoverIntent模块已被移除。之前有小工具和用户脚本使用该模块来给JavaScript回应悬浮事件的机制添加一段人工的延迟时间。这些小工具和用户脚本现在需要改用jQuery hover()或on()。迁移指南中可以找到示例。 [九二〇]
特殊:特查中的部分链接将会重新排版。与所有用户有关的链接将会清楚地和与您账户有关的链接分隔开来。 [九二一]
使用新的__ARCHIVEDTALK__魔法字将可以在归档的讨论页面中隐藏回覆按钮。同时还会引入一个新的.mw-archivedtalk CSS类，用于在一个页面的特定小节中隐藏回覆按钮。 [九二二][九二三][九二四]

将来更新

在页面中创建图表等数据可视化元素的Vega软件将在未来升级至最新版本。仍使用老旧的1.5版本语法的图表可能会无法正常工作。多数现存的用法已被找到并更新，但您还可以帮忙检查，以及更新本地文档。查看如何找到并修复此类图表的示例

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年四月三日（一）二三時三九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第15期技术新闻[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發佈最新的技術新聞。請告知其他用户這些更改；不是所有的更改都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的翻譯版本。

最近更改

使用可视化编辑器时，您现在可以不打开画廊对话框即编辑图片注解。这项功能来自2023年社群愿望清单调查，在调查中排名第61位。 [九二五]
当他人编辑您的用户页时，您将收到通知。详见参数设置中的“使用者頁面編輯”选项。这项功能来自2023年社群愿望清单调查，在调查中排名第3位。 [九二六]

問題

中央通告横幅的显示出现了问题：即使注册用户关闭了特定的横幅类型，系统仍会向用户展示全部类型的横幅。这一问题已被修复。 [九二七]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於4月11日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於4月12日部署至非維基百科站點及部分维基百科，并於4月13日部署至所有站點，參見日曆。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括摩洛哥阿拉伯语维基百科、丹麦语维基百科、丁卡语维基百科、下索布语维基百科、埃维语维基百科、希腊语维基百科、艾米利亚-罗马涅语维基百科、世界语维基百科、爱沙尼亚语维基百科、巴斯克语维基百科、埃斯特雷马杜拉语维基百科、通布卡语维基百科、富拉语维基百科、芬兰语维基百科、佛罗语维基百科、斐济语维基百科、法罗语维基百科、法兰克-普罗旺斯语维基百科、北弗里西亚语维基百科、弗留利语维基百科、爱尔兰语维基百科、圭亚那克里奥尔语维基百科、苏格兰盖尔语维基百科、加利西亚语维基百科、Gilaki语维基百科、瓜拉尼语维基百科、果阿孔卡尼语维基百科、哥特语维基百科、古吉拉特语维基百科、马恩语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [九二八][九二九]

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年四月一〇日（一）二〇時〇五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第16期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

现在你可以通过顯示附近的條目按钮使用新功能“查看附近条目”。六个维基站点已于十月开始测试这一功能。 [九三〇][九三一]
全域监视列表现在为每个条目提供了將頁面標記為已讀的链接。这一功能是2023年社群愿望清单调查第161名。 [九三二]

问题

在维基共享资源上传新版本图像后，一些缩略图没有被正确替换。这会在本周晚些时候修复。 [九三三][九三四]
在过去几周中，一些外部工具在使用OAuth登录时存在不一致的问题，现已修复。 [九三五]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于4月18日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于4月19日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于4月20日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年四月一八日（二）〇一時五四分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第17期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

特殊:功績等页面上的日期选择菜单现在将显示当前和过去十年的年份范围，而不是当前和未来十年。此功能请求是2023年社区愿望清单调查中投票第145名。 [九三六]

问题

由于Graph扩展存在安全问题，所有维基媒体项目中的相关功能已被禁用。维基媒体基金会团队正在制定应对这些漏洞的计划。 [九三七]
过去数日，无法在移动版维基上保存部分类型的编辑。该问题已被修复。 [九三八][九三九][九四〇]

本周晚些时候的更新

全部维基将在4月26日14:00 UTC起短暂进入只读状态。 [九四一]
MediaWiki的新版本将于4月25日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于4月26日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于4月27日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

将来更新

编辑团队计划对讨论页面项目的可用性分析进行A/B测试。计划的测量现已启用。您的维基可能被邀请参加。请在讨论页面提出对测量计划的改进建议。
维基媒体基金会年度计划2023-2024草案开始征求意见，截止日期为5月19日。最终计划将于2023年7月在元维基发布。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年四月二四日（一）二二時〇三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第18期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

内容归属工具Who Wrote That?、XTools Authorship和XTools Blame现已支持法语和意大利语维基百科，将来会支持更多语言版本。这是2023年社群愿望清单调查第7位的一部分。 [九四二][九四三][九四四]
Video2commons工具的升级已完成。修复了一些与从YouTube上传相关的错误。 [九四五]
特殊:簿註页面已被重新设计以适配移动端网页。新设计让用户通过屏幕较窄的设备访问时，可以更容易的访问不同类别的设置。您也可以通过移动端网页侧栏内的设置链接访问这一页面。 [九四六]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于5月2日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于5月3日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于5月4日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年五月二日（二）〇一時四五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第19期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

上周，Community Tech发布了第一个更新以提供更佳差异，这是2022年社群愿望清单调查的第一位。本次更新为差异添加了图标和工具提示，以便不熟悉蓝色和黄色高亮显示的用户更容易明白编辑造成的差异。
当您关闭通过MediaViewer显示的图像时，它现在将返回到维基页面，而不是返回到浏览器的历史记录中。此功能请求是2023年社群愿望清单调查中投票第65名。 [九四七]
SyntaxHighlight扩展现在可将wikitext作为指定语言。用于突出显示wiki文本的旧替代品，例如html5、moin、html+handlebars，现在可以被取代。 [九四八]
预加载新页面的文本/段落现在支持从本地化的MediaWiki界面消息进行预加载。例如在捷克语维基百科上使用preload=MediaWiki:July。 [九四九]

问题

Graph扩展更新：基金会的开发人员已将可视化软件升级到Vega5。现在社群基于Vega2的图像不再兼容。社群需要更新本地图像、模板和lua模块，如de:Modul:Graph。Vega迁移指南提供了有关从Vega2迁移的详细信息。这里是一个示例。Vega5目前刚刚在mediawiki.org上启用，为社群提供测试环境。 [九五〇]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于5月9日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于5月10日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于5月11日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
到目前为止，所有新的OAuth应用程序都经过人工审核。而从本周开始，使用仅识别或基本授权的应用程序将不再需要审查。 [九五一]

将来更新

明年，MediaWiki将停止使用IP地址来标记未登录用户，并将开始自动分配唯一的临时用户名。在IP编辑：隐私增强和滥用缓解/更新阅读更多内容。您可以参与关于临时用户名的格式的讨论。 [九五二]
在十个Vector 2022皮肤是默认皮肤的维基百科上将有一次A/B测试。半数已登录的桌面版用户会看到一个界面，界面中页面的不同部分更清楚地分开。在此了解更多信息。 [九五三][九五四]
jquery.tipsy将从MediaWiki中移除。这会影响一些用户脚本。许多带有.tipsy(的行可以被注释掉。OO.ui.PopupWidget可以让代码继续像现在一样生效。您可以点此阅读更多，或阅读如何查找失效的脚本。 [九五五]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年五月九日（二）〇〇時三六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第20期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

问题

基于ISBN自动生成的引文目前出现问题。这会影响可视化编辑器的自动选项卡的引用，以及使用了citoid API的小工具和用户脚本。我们正在努力恢复此功能。 [九五六]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于5月16日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于5月17日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于5月18日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括哥伦打洛语维基百科、豪萨语维基百科、客家语维基百科、夏威夷语维基百科、斐济印地语维基百科、克罗地亚语维基百科、上索布语维基百科、海地克里奥尔语维基百科、因特语维基百科、国际语（E）维基百科、伊博语维基百科、伊洛卡诺语维基百科、印古什语维基百科、伊多语维基百科、冰岛语维基百科、因纽特语维基百科、牙买加Patois语维基百科、爪哇语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [九五七]

将来更新

维基媒体基金会最近成立了一个团队，该团队将专注于试验新工具。目前，他们正在为维基媒体项目构建一个ChatGPT插件的原型。该插件能使ChatGPT生成的信息被正确归属到维基媒体项目。
小工具和用户脚本开发人员应将jquery.cookie替换为mediawiki.cookie。jquery.cookie库将在大约一个月后删除，开发人员将运行脚本来替换其余的使用。 [九五八]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年五月一五日（一）二一時四五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第21期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

“已访问最近编辑的页面监视者数”的时间现在改为30天（过去是180天）。这是社群愿望清单调查的提案之一。 [九五九]

本周晚些时候的更新

改进的影响模块将在维基百科上启用。影响力模块是新手在他们的个人主页可以使用的功能。它将显示他们的编辑次数、他们编辑的页面有多少读者、他们收到了多少感谢等。也可以通过Special:Impact来访问该模块。 [九六〇]
MediaWiki的新版本将于5月23日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于5月24日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于5月25日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二三年五月二二日（一）一六時五五分 (UTC)

2023年第22期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

由于Zotero的ISBN搜索，从ISBN自动添加引文的功能又可以使用了。现在的数据来源为美国议会图书馆、法国国立图书馆、K10plus ISBN（德国的资料库）。可以向Zotero提议进行额外的数据源搜索。可视化编辑器的自动选项卡中的ISBN标签将在本周晚些时候重新上线。 [九六一]
为特殊:治哨站增加了一个能选择特定命名空间所有页面的“選取所有”按钮。这一功能是2023年社群愿望清单调查第161位。 [九六二]

问题

本月初的几天，工具菜单中的“添加跨语言链接”功能无法正常运作，现已经修复。 [九六三]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于5月30日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于5月31日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于6月1日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
本周，小型和中型维基上的可视化编辑器将切换至新的后端。大型维基将在未来几周内推出。这是将Parsoid并入MediaWiki核心的计划的一部分。此更改不会对用户造成明显影响，但如果您在使用可视化编辑器时遇到加载缓慢或其他异常情况，请在此处链接的phabricator工单报告。 [九六四]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年五月二九日（一）二二時〇三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第23期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

RealMe扩展将允许用户在用户页中的URL标记为已通过Mastodon或类似软件验证。
现在使用可视化编辑器时可以直接在参考资料列表处编辑参考资料。该功能是2023年社群愿望清单调查第二位。 [九六五]
以前，单击其他人在URL中应用过滤器的最近更改链接可能会无意中更改“按頁面分組結果”的设置。现已修复。 [九六六]

问题

上周数日间，一些工具和机器人由于数据库问题会返回过时的信息，在问题修复时可能已经完全停止运作。这些问题现已得到修复。 [九六七]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于6月6日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于6月7日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于6月8日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
机器人将不再因为编辑中的URL与spam blacklist匹配而被阻止。 [九六八]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年六月五日（一）二二時五二分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第24期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

内容归属工具Who Wrote That?、XTools Authorship和XTools Blame现已支持荷兰语、德语、匈牙利语、印度尼西亚语、日语、波兰语、葡萄牙语维基百科。这是2023年社群愿望清单调查第7位。 [九六九]
Search Preview panel已部署在四个维基百科（加泰罗尼亚语、荷兰语、匈牙利语和挪威语）上。该面板将显示与文章相关的图像（如果存在）、文章的序言部分、相关图像（来自维基共享资源的MediaSearch），最后显示与文章相关的姊妹项目。 [九七〇]
RealMe扩展现允许管理员验证任何页面的Mastodon和类似软件的URL。 [九七一]
维基媒体项目默认的许可协议已经正式升级到CC BY-SA 4.0。软件的界面已经更新。社群可以随时更新原来的方针等文档中涉及CC BY-SA 3.0的部分。 [九七二]

问题

在上个月的三天中，一些使用可视化编辑器或讨论工具编辑的维基百科页面在编辑过程中意外加入了__TOC__（或其本地化形式）。受影响页面请见按维基排序的受影响页面列表。该问题可能仍需修复。 [九七三]
目前，可视化编辑器的“此頁面預設的排序方式為”功能已损坏。现有的{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}关键字在可视化编辑器中错误地显示为缺少模板。开发人员正在寻找解决办法。同时，建议那些希望编辑页面默认排序的用户切换至源代码编辑。 [九七四]
上周，对删除表单的更新可能导致一些小工具或用户脚本无法工作。如果您需要操作（清空）原因字段，请将#wpReason替换为#wpReason > input。请参阅修复示例。 [九七五]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于6月13日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于6月14日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于6月15日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
英语维基百科将在周一切换可视化编辑器到新的后端，周四部署到所有其它大型维基。此更改不会对用户造成明显影响，但如果您在使用可视化编辑器时遇到加载缓慢或其它异常情况，请在此处链接的phabricator工单上报告。 [九七六]

将来更新

6月5日到7月17日，基金会的安全团队正在与贡献者就一项方针草案进行磋商，以管理在志愿者开发的小工具和脚本中使用的第三方资源。欢迎在元维基上的第三方资源方针提供反馈和建议。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年六月一二日（一）一四時五一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第25期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

现可在WikimediaDebug上使用Flame graphs。 [九七七][九七八]

本周晚些时候的更新

本周没有新的MediaWiki版本。
可视化编辑器现在包括一个工具栏搜索弹出窗口，可以通过输入\或ctrl + shift + p来触发，这将使您可以快速访问编辑器中可用的大多数工具。 [九七九][九八〇]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年六月一九日（一）二〇時〇九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第26期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

Action API模块和Special:LinkSearch现在将为主域名的所有prop=extlinks响应添加尾随的/。这是删除外部链接数据库表中重复项工作的一部分。 [九八一]

问题

上周，维基共享资源和维基数据的搜索中断了23小时。 [九八二][九八三]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于6月27日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于6月28日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于6月29日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
Minerva皮肤现在将更多预定义样式应用于.mbox-text CSS类。这可以支持使用div而不是表格的mbox模板。请确认新样式不会影响您所在的维基中的其它模板。 [九八四][九八五]
现在小工具将默认在桌面版和移动版加载。以前，默认情况下小工具仅在桌面版加载。使用|targets=参数更改此默认值的方式也已被弃用，不应使用。您应该根据皮肤（使用MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition中的|skins=参数）使小工具在移动版中运行或禁用它们，而不是根据用户是否使用移动网站或桌面版网站来禁用它们。作为临时解决方案，开发人员将在Minerva皮肤上禁用在移动版产生错误的常用小工具。 [九八六]
默认情况下，所有命名空间选项卡现在都具有相同的浏览器快捷键。以前，自定义和扩展定义的命名空间必须在维基上手动设置其快捷键，但现在不再需要了。 [九八七]
标记审阅修订版本的表单现在使用标准化的用户界面组件。 [九八八]

将来更新

解析器的HTML输出中媒体文件的结构将在未来几周内在第二组维基媒体项目中发生变化。此更改提高了内容的可访问性。您可能需要更新站点 CSS、用户脚本和小工具。点击这里了解要检查哪些代码、如何更新代码以及在哪里报告任何相关问题的详细信息。 [九八九]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年六月二六日（一）一六時一九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第27期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

作为点击播放的音频链接愿望清单提案的一部分，小型wiki现在可以使用内联音频播放器（由Phonos扩展实现）。 [九九〇]
从本周开始，所有小工具都会自动加载在移动版和桌面版网站上加载。如果您在维基上发现小工具有问题，请调整小工具定义文件中的小工具选项。 [九九一]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于7月4日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于7月5日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于7月6日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

技术新闻由技術新聞編者制作并由機器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年七月三日（一）二二時五一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第28期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

章节级图像建议功能已部署在七个维基百科（葡萄牙语、俄语、印度尼西亚语、加泰罗尼亚语、匈牙利语、芬兰语和挪威博克马尔语）上。該功能會從使用者監視清單內的頁面中，以章節為單位推薦適當的圖像。
全域防滥用过滤器已在所有维基媒体项目上启用，英语維基百科和日语维基百科例外（這兩個wiki的社群選擇不引入全局滥用过滤器）。此更改是在征求全域意见之后做出的。 [九九二]
特殊:BlockedExternalDomains是帮助管理员反spam的新工具。它提供了一个更清晰的界面来阻止域名及子域名，更容易搜索，而且软件可以更快地处理维基上的每次编辑。它不支持正则表达式（以应对复杂的情况），不支持URL路径匹配，也不支持MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist，但它能取代现MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist的大部分功能。在该工具的说明文档中有一个Python脚本可帮助将所有简单的域名迁移到此工具中，还有更多功能的详细信息。除元维基、维基共享资源和维基数据外，所有维基均可使用该工具。 [九九三]
维基编辑器扩展已更新。本次更新包括维基文本编辑的一些最常用的功能。过去，它使用的许多介面消息只能由管理员翻译，但现在所有translatewiki上的普通翻译者都可以翻译它们。请检查WikiEditor 您的语言的本地化进度，如果您的语言的“完成度”显示低于100%，请协助翻译。点击查看详细信息。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于7月11日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于7月12日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于7月13日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
特殊:尋網連和API响应部分的默认协议已从http更改为http和https。 [九九四]
特殊:尋網連及其相应的API部分现在将搜索查询中提供的全部的URL。以前只有前60个字符。此功能是十五年前提出的要求。 [九九五]

将来更新

有一个ChatGPT插件的实验。这是为了向用户显示当他们从维基百科阅读信息时信息来自哪里。它已经过维基媒体基金会工作人员和一些维基人的测试。很快所有ChatGPT插件用户都可以使用该维基百科插件。这是2023年第20期技术新闻中提到的插件。 [九九六]
关于提议的第三方资源方针的讨论正在进行中。该提案将影响小工具和用户脚本中第三方资源的使用。根据迄今为止收到的反馈，方针包括加载第三方资源的用户脚本和小工具相关的风险、一些实践和豁免的要求，如代码透明度和可检查性。欢迎您在2023年7月17日之前在方针讨论页面提供反馈和建议。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年七月一〇日（一）一九時五四分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第29期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

目前1%的用户流量由Kubernetes平台提供服务（阅读本文以了解更多技术细节），我们计划定期逐渐提高这一比例。您可以在本工单追踪这一工作的进度。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于7月18日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于7月19日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于7月20日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
在调用MediaWiki中的系统消息时，MediaWiki将不再使用软件定义的备选方案，而是会寻找存在的本地消息作为备选。这意味着已没有必要在备选链上对每种语言逐个覆盖。例如，在英文维基百科中，已经不再需要为en-ca、en-gb等语言创建嵌入了上层页面的子页面。这让维护本地覆盖的系统消息更加轻松。 [九九七]
新的MediaWiki版本将弃用action=growthsetmentorstatus API。调用该API的机器人或脚本现在应该使用action=growthmanagementorlist API。 [九九八]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年七月一七日（一）二三時〇八分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第30期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

7月18日，维基媒体基金会针对依赖基金会或其附属机构维护的软件进行技术工作的人员，发起了一项关于技术决策制定过程的调查。如果您依赖于这些软件，请参加调查。该调查将持续三周，于8月7日结束。您可以在wikitech-l上的公告电子邮件中找到更多信息。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于7月25日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于7月26日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于7月27日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年七月二五日（二）〇二時二〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第31期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

目前，开发者在开发全域Lua模块和模板时，可以使用Synchronizer工具保持各个维基媒体项目之间Lua模块的同步，详情请参考更新后的相关文档。
特殊:新灶和修订历史记录页面上的标签过滤器现在可以反选。例如，您可以隐藏使用自动化工具进行的编辑。 [九九九][一〇〇〇]
能使用插件的ChatGPT用户现在可以尝试使用维基百科ChatGPT插件。如果想交流该实验性功能或类似产品，您可以参加视频通话。 [一〇〇一]

問題

过去两周，无法为标题中包含非拉丁字符的页面生成PDF。现在这个问题已经得到解决。 [一〇〇二]

本週後期變更

MediaWiki的新版本将于8月1日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于8月2日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于8月3日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
自周二起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括格鲁吉亚语维基百科、卡拉卡尔帕克语维基百科、卡拜尔语维基百科、卡巴尔达语维基百科、卡比耶语维基百科、吉库尤语维基百科、哈萨克语维基百科、高棉语维基百科、卡纳达语维基百科、克什米尔语维基百科、科隆语维基百科、库尔德语维基百科、康沃尔语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [一〇〇三]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年七月三一日（一）二三時五四分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第32期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

使用移动版的编辑者现在可以一次性编辑整个页面。为了使用该功能，用户需要在设置中开启⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽并使用餘菜单中的編輯整頁按钮。 [一〇〇四]

本周晚些时候的更新

本周没有新的MediaWiki版本。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年八月七日（一）二一時二一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第33期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

内容翻译系统不再使用有道的机器翻译服务。该服务已经存在了几年，但由于没有使用以及存在可用的替代方案，它已被弃用以减少维护费用。涵盖相同语言的其它服务仍然可用。 [一〇〇五]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于8月15日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于8月16日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于8月17日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括拉丁语维基百科、拉迪诺语维基百科、卢森堡语维基百科、拉克语维基百科、列兹金语维基百科、新共同语言维基百科、卢干达语维基百科、林堡语维基百科、利古里亚语维基百科、伦巴第语维基百科、林加拉语维基百科、拉特加莱语维基百科、拉脱维亚语维基百科、迈蒂利语维基百科、Banyumasan语维基百科、莫克沙语维基百科、马拉加斯语维基百科、亚美尼亚语维基百科、柯尔克孜语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [一〇〇六]

将来更新

A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年八月一五日（二）〇五時五九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第34期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [一〇〇七]
From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
  - a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [一〇〇八]
  - a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [一〇〇九]
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
  - 维基功能 (f:) [一〇一〇]
  - a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [一〇一一]
  - a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [一〇一二]
  - a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [一〇一三]
  - a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [一〇一四]
  - a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [一〇一五]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于8月22日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于8月23日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于8月24日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

将来更新

There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [一〇一六]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

二〇二三年八月二一日（一）一五時二五分 (UTC)

2023年第35期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

作为改善段落拆分差异处理更改的一部分，正在推出改进的拆分检测。过去的两周里，我们将其部署到了第0组和第一组维基。本周它将被部署到第二组维基。 [一〇一七]
所有特殊:功績页面现在都显示用户的本地编辑计数和帐户的创建日期。 [一〇一八]
维基文库用户现在可以使用prpbengalicurrency标签将孟加拉语货币字符表示为<pagelist>标签内的页码。 [一〇一九]
两个参数设置的位置已重新调整。选项“啟用視覺化編輯器”现在位于所有维基的“在修”页。之前，它在部分维基上位于“試灶”页中。选项“使用視覺化編輯器的wikitext模式，而非使用其他的wikitext編輯器”现在也位于所有维基的“在修”页中，而非“試灶”页。 [一〇二〇][一〇二一]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于8月29日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于8月30日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于8月31日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
维基媒体开发者帐户的注册将移至idm.wikimedia.org，而非Wikitech。新系统的更多信息见此。
所有语言方向为从右至左的维基，以及韩语、亚美尼亚语、乌克兰语、俄语和保加利亚语维基百科的侧边栏中新增了一个链接，使用URL缩短程序提供该页面的短URL。此功能将在未来几周内出现在更多维基百科上。 [一〇二二]

将来更新

现在正在讨论删除DoubleWiki扩展。当前，当选择特定语言版本旁边的<=>符号时，此扩展允许维基文库用户并排查看多个语言版本的文章。欢迎在phabricator工单发表意见。
有人建议将第二个隐藏类别列表（出现在维基文本编辑表格下方）与主类别列表（位于页面下方）合并。更多信息请见Phabricator。欢迎反馈！

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年八月二八日（一）一四時〇〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第36期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

EditInSequence是一项允许用户在维基文库上更快编辑页面的功能。根据社群反馈，它已被移至测试功能。您可以在参数设置中的测试功能页面启用它。 [一〇二三]
作为为IPA生成音频和点击时播放的音频链接愿望清单项目的一部分，Phonos的内嵌音频播放器模式已部署到所有项目。 [一〇二四]
当管理员更改用户的用户组时，有一个新选项可以将用户的用户页面添加到他们的监视列表中。该功能通过特殊:秉治權任和API实现。 [一〇二五]
一个新的维基已创建：
- 塔里什语維基百科 (w:tly:) [一〇二六]

问题

LoginNotify扩展自一月以来始终没有发送通知。该问题现已修复，今后您可能会看到登录尝试失败以及新设备尝试登录成功的通知。 [一〇二七]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月5日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月6日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月7日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括东马里语维基百科、毛利语维基百科、米南佳保语维基百科、马其顿语维基百科、马拉雅拉姆语维基百科、蒙古语维基百科、马拉地语维基百科、西马里语维基百科、马来语维基百科、马耳他语维基百科、米兰德斯语维基百科、厄尔兹亚语维基百科、马赞德兰语维基百科、纳瓦特尔语维基百科、那不勒斯语维基百科、低地德语维基百科、下萨克森语维基百科、尼泊尔语维基百科、尼瓦尔语维基百科、新挪威语维基百科、诺维亚语维基百科、西非书面文字维基百科、诺曼语维基百科、北索托语维基百科、纳瓦霍语维基百科、齐切瓦语维基百科、奥克语维基百科、李维-卡累利阿语维基百科、奥罗莫语维基百科、奥里亚语维基百科、奥塞梯语维基百科、旁遮普语维基百科、邦阿西楠语维基百科、邦板牙语维基百科、帕皮阿门托语维基百科、庇卡底语维基百科、宾夕法尼亚德语维基百科、普法尔茨德语维基百科、诺福克/皮特肯语、皮埃蒙特语维基百科、西旁遮普语维基百科、旁狄希腊语维基百科、普什图语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [一〇二八][一〇二九]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年九月四日（一）二三時三三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第37期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

ORES，客观修订评估服务，现在在英语维基百科和维基数据之外的所有维基上使用新的开源基础设施。英文维基百科和维基数据将在本周跟进。如果您发现最近更改过滤器中有任何与ORES相关的异常结果（例如“貢獻品質預測”和“使用者目的預測”），请报告。 [一〇三〇]
当您登录到一个维基媒体基金会下属的维基并访问另一个维基媒体基金会下属的维基时，系统会尝试自动登录。这在很长一段时间内都是不可靠的。您现在可以访问登录页面，让系统进一步尝试。如果你觉得这让登录变得比以前更好或更糟，请及时反馈，十分感谢。 [一〇三一]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月12日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月13日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月14日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [一〇三二]

将来更新

所有维基将在9月20日短暂进入只读状态（大约几分钟）。目前定于14:00（UTC）。更多信息将在技术新闻中发布，并将在未来几周内发送到各个维基上。 [一〇三三]
The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年九月一一日（一）二一時〇八分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第38期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

MediaWiki现在有一个前端代码的稳定接口策略，它更明确地定义了我们如何弃用MediaWiki代码和基于维基的代码（例如小工具和用户脚本）。感谢所有为其内容和讨论做出贡献的人。 [一〇三四][一〇三五]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月19日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月20日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月21日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
全部维基将在9月20日14:00 UTC起短暂进入只读状态。 [一〇三六]
所有维基都将使用维基媒体URL缩短程序来在侧边栏提供短链接。 [一〇三七]

将来更新

负责调查Graph扩展的团队发布了重新启用扩展的提案，他们需要您的意见。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年九月一八日（一）一九時一九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第39期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

Vector 2022皮肤现将记住未登录用户的目录展开状态。 [一〇三八]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于9月26日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于9月27日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于9月28日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
作為轉用 Vue.js 和 Codex 的一步，ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui 模塊現已不推薦使用。對於仍使用該模塊的工具，有一份MediaWiki UI 到 Codex 的遷移指引。工單內有更多詳情，歡迎發問。
小工具定义将有一个新的“命名空间”选项。该选项使用命名空间ID列表。使用此选项的小工具将仅在指定的命名空间中加载。

将来更新

滥用过滤器将新增两个变量：global_account_groups和global_account_editcount。它们仅作用于账户创建。当在其它维基进行过多次编辑的用户首次访问您的维基时，您可以使用它们来阻止帐户的自动创建。 [一〇三九][一〇四〇]

會議

您可以参加下一次与维基百科移动应用程序团队的会议。会议期间，我们将讨论当前的功能和未来的路线。会议将于10月27日 17:00 (UTC)举行。详细信息及参与方式见此。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年九月二六日（二）一六時五一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第40期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

增加了新的用户选项：“始終啟用安全模式”。该选项将使页面加载时不包含任何维基上的JavaScript或CSS。这对修复出问题的JavaScript部件十分有用。 [一〇四一]
小工具的定义现有一个新的“contentModels”选项可用。该选项使用页面内容模型列表，例如wikitext或css。使用此选项的小工具将仅在特定内容模型的页面中加载。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月3日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于10月4日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于10月5日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

将来更新

Vector 2022皮肤将不再使用Vector Legacy (2010)的自定义样式和脚本。该更改将于今年晚些时候或2024年初进行。请参阅如何调整维基上的CSS和JS 页面。 [一〇四二]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一〇月三日（二）〇一時二七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第41期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

一个新的维基已创建：豐語維基百科 (w:fon:) [一〇四三]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月10日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于10月11日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于10月12日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
自周三起，部分维基站点将可以使用添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-功能。这些站点包括斯瓦西里语维基百科、瓦隆语维基百科、瓦瑞瓦瑞语维基百科、沃洛夫语维基百科、卡尔梅克语维基百科、科萨语维基百科、明格列尔语维基百科、意第绪语维基百科、约鲁巴语维基百科、壮语维基百科、西兰语维基百科、闽南语维基百科、祖鲁语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [一〇四四]
在一些维基上，新手会被建议在没有任何图片的条目中加入Commons的图片。該功能將得到拓展，從條目級別細化到段落級別：从周二开始，这些维基的新用户将能够将图像添加到没有插图的段落。具体的维基请见Growth团队部署列表的“图像推荐”一列。在此了解有关此功能的更多信息。 [一〇四五]
在行動版網頁外觀Minerva當中，用於CSS的網頁元素標識符 #page-actions 將會被更改為 #p-views 。這一項變更將會使該元素的標識符與其他網頁外觀皮膚保持統一，從而改善小工具和擴展插件在行動版外觀下的支援情況。部分小工具需要做出相應的更新，關於詳細資訊以及受到影響的小工具清單，請見此處。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一〇月九日（一）一四時三九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第42期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

我们修复了统一登录在一些浏览器（Chrome、Edge、Opera）上出现的问题。用户浏览姊妹项目时不再需要手动点击登录或刷新页面了。欢迎反馈该修复是否生效。 [一〇四六]
编辑提示现可用于移动版前端和Minerva皮肤。本功能的灵感来自英文维基百科的小工具。详情请见T316178。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月17日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于10月18日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于10月19日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

将来更改

3周后，Vector 2022皮肤中与一年前已弃用的addPortletLink和#p-namespaces相关的代码将被删除。如果您发现应该出现在“讨论”选项卡旁边的小工具没有正常出现，请告知小工具的维护人员查看Phabricator工单中的说明。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一〇月一六日（一）二三時四七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第43期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更改

维基媒体项目新增了每季度一次的语言和国际化通讯，包含新功能的开发、各种语言相关技术项目的改进以及相关支持工作。
所有维基均已启用源映射支持。在浏览器的开发者工具中打开调试器时，您应该可以看到未缩小的JavaScript源代码。 [一〇四七]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月24日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于10月25日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于10月26日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一〇月二三日（一）二三時一六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第44期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

作为改进共享资源的UploadWizard项目的一部分，结构化内容团队对选择自己的作品与非自己的作品的上传步骤（T347590）及自己作品的授权许可步骤（T347756）进行了一些改进。
系统设计团队发布了Codex1.0.0 版，这是维基媒体的新设计系统。请参阅有关Codex 1.0.0发布的完整公告。

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于10月31日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于11月1日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于11月2日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
分类页面的列表在每个维基上使用國際統一碼部件函式庫对该语言进行排序。在到11月2日的几天内，许多语言的类别更改将无法正确排序。这是因为开发人员正在升级到该库的新版本。他们将使用脚本来修复现有分类。这将需要几个小时或几天，具体取决于维基规模。点此了解详情。 [一〇四八][一〇四九]
从11月1日开始，增长团队将更新影响模块（Special:Impact）。新的影响模块向新用户展示了更多关于他们对维基的影响的数据。一些维基百科在过去的几个月里已进行了这项测试。 [一〇五〇]

将来更新

有一个重新启用Graph扩展的提议。您可以查看此提案并分享您的想法提供助力。
维基媒体基金会正在努力使管理员能够直接编辑MediaWiki配置。这与之前在Special:EditGrowthConfig上的工作类似。技术相关的征求意见截至11月8日，您可在此期间提供反馈。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一〇月三〇日（一）二三時二一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第45期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

Vector 2022皮肤中，许多导航元素（标语、工具菜单、导航链接等）的默认字体大小已稍微提高，以与页面内容使用的字体大小相匹配。 [一〇五一]

问题

上周，在部分维基在显示最近更改时有1至6小时出现编辑已提交却没有立即显示的问题。这是数据库出现问题导致的。 [一〇五二]

本周晚些时候的更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于11月7日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于11月8日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于11月9日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。
成长团队会将新手从前的导师切换为当前活跃的导师。通知语言亦得到了修改，以对新用户更加友好。 [一〇五三][一〇五四]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一一月六日（一）二一時〇六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第46期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些更改；不是所有的更改都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

最近更新

4个新的维基已创建：
- 標準摩洛哥柏柏爾語维基百科 (w:zgh:) [一〇五五]
- 達加雷語维基百科 (w:dga:) [一〇五六]
- 多巴巴塔克语维基百科 (w:bbc:) [一〇五七]
- 班查語维基语录 (q:bjn:) [一〇五八]

問題

上周，经常访问元维基或维基共享资源的用户可能会在其它维基上自动登出且没有重新自动登录，这一问题现已解决。 [一〇五九]
上周，一些弹出对话框和菜单的字体大小出现错误。这一问题现已解决。 [一〇六〇]

本周更新

MediaWiki的新版本将于11月14日部署于测试维基及MediaWiki.org。它将于11月15日部署至非维基百科wiki及部分维基百科，并于11月16日部署至所有wiki，参见日历。

未來更新

参考预览现成为多个维基的默认功能。参考预览是供参考的弹出窗口，类似于页面预览功能。您可以退出登录来查看它们。如果您使用了小工具参考工具提示或导航Popups，您将看不到参考预览。部署计划于2023年11月22日进行。
Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [一〇六一]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供反馈 • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一一月一三日（一）二三時五二分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第47期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些变更；不是所有的更新都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

本週更新

本週沒有MediaWiki的新版本。 [一〇六二][一〇六三]
自週三起，部分维基站点将可以使用“添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-”功能。这些站点包括克丘亚语维基百科、罗曼什语维基百科、罗姆语维基百科、基隆迪语维基百科、阿罗马尼亚语维基百科、塔伦蒂诺语维基百科、卢森尼亚语维基百科、卢旺达语维基百科、梵语维基百科、雅库特语维基百科、桑塔利语维基百科、萨丁尼亚语维基百科、西西里语维基百科、低地苏格兰语维基百科、信德语维基百科、北萨米语维基百科、桑戈语维基百科、塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语维基百科、僧伽罗语维基百科、斯洛伐克语维基百科、斯洛文尼亚语维基百科、萨摩亚语维基百科、索马里语维基百科、阿尔巴尼亚语维基百科、塞尔维亚语维基百科、苏里南汤加语维基百科、斯威士语维基百科、南索托语维基百科、沙特弗里西语维基百科、巽他语维基百科、西里西亚语维基百科、泰米尔语维基百科、Tulu语维基百科、泰卢固语维基百科、德顿语维基百科、塔吉克语维基百科、泰语维基百科、土库曼语维基百科、他加禄语维基百科、茨瓦纳语维基百科、汤加语维基百科、巴布亚皮钦语维基百科、土耳其语维基百科、宗喀语维基百科、鞑靼语维基百科、契维语维基百科、塔希提语维基百科、图瓦语维基百科、乌德穆尔特语维基百科、维吾尔语维基百科、乌孜别克语维基百科、文达语维基百科、威尼斯语维基百科、维普森语维基百科、西佛兰德语维基百科、沃拉普克语维基百科。这是逐步向更多维基百科部署这一工具的一部分。社群可以在本地配置这一功能如何工作。 [一〇六四][一〇六五][一〇六六]
Vector 2022-{zh-hans:皮肤;zh-hant:外觀}-將對下拉式選單、列寬等進行一些細微的視覺變化。這些變更已於上週添加到4個維基百科中。如果沒有發現問題，這些變更將於本週在所有維基上進行。這些變更將使為可讀性和深色模式添加新選單成為可能。了解更多。 [一〇六七]

未來變更

有一個關於重新啟用Graph-{zh-cn:扩展;zh-tw:擴充功能;}-的更新。為了加快進程，發布時將不-{zh-cn:支持;zh-tw:支援;}-Vega 2，並且僅提供一些-{zh-cn:协议;zh-tw:協定;}-。您可以-{zh-cn:通过;zh-tw:透過;}-分享您對該計劃的看法來提供協助。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • 获取帮助 • 提供-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}- • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一一月二一日（二）〇〇時五五分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第48期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他用户这些-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-；不是所有的-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於11月28日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於11月29日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於11月30日部署至所有wiki。參見日曆。下週沒有MediaWiki的新版本。 [一〇六八][一〇六九]
MediaWiki的JavaScript系統現在允許在小工具和用戶腳本中使用async/await語法。小工具作者應留意，用戶的瀏覽器可能不-{zh-hans:支持;zh-hant:支援;}-該語法，應適當使用。 [一〇七〇]
上週公告的「添加-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結}-」功能部署計畫被推遲。本週將恢復部署。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • -{zh-hans:获取帮助;zh-hant:取得協助}- • 提供-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}- • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一一月二七日（一）二三時〇九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第49期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

Vector 2022-{zh-hans:皮肤;zh-hant:外觀}-的段落間距已從7像素-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-為14像素，以-{zh-hans:匹配;zh-hant:符合;}-文字大小。這將使區分段落和句子變得更容易。 [一〇七一]
-{zh-hant:視覺化編輯器;zh-hans:可视化编辑器;}-的「此頁面預設的排序方式為」功能再度可用。您不再需要切換為-{zh-hant:原始碼編輯器;zh-hans:源代码编辑器;}-來編輯{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}關鍵字。 [一〇七二]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

本週沒有MediaWiki的新版本。 [一〇七三][一〇七四]
12月6日，在-{zh-hans:参数设置;zh-hant:偏好設定;}-啟用「顯示討論活動」的用戶將注意到包含__NEWSECTIONLINK__魔術字的頁面出現討論頁可用性改進。如果您發現任何問題，請在Phabricator與團隊分享。

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

Toolforge的Grid Engine關閉流程將於12月14日開始。仍在使用此舊系統的工具的維護者應計劃遷移到Kubernetes，或在開始日期前於Phabricator有關工具的任務中告訴團隊您的計畫。 [一〇七五]
團隊正在就即將棄用結構式討論事宜聯絡使用結構式討論的社群。您可以在計劃頁面閱讀更多-{zh-hans:信息;zh-hant:資訊;}-，並分享您的評論。

活動

2024年維基媒體黑客松已開放報名和獎助金申請，活動將在明年5月3日至5月5日於愛沙尼亞塔林舉行。獎助金申請截止至2024年1月5日。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一二月四日（一）二三時五〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第50期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

維基媒體共享資源的-{zh-hans:上传向导;zh-tw:上傳精靈;zh-hk:上載精靈;}-在「選擇是否為自己的作品」步驟有一些細微的用戶-{zh-hans:界面;zh-hant:介面;}-改進。這是結構化內容團隊在改進共享資源的-{zh-hans:上传向导;zh-tw:上傳精靈;zh-hk:上載精靈;}-計劃的一部分。 [一〇七六][一〇七七]

問題

12月初的幾天中，帶有「影響-{zh-hans:模块;zh-hant:模組;}-」的新手首頁功能及其頁面瀏覽圖表發生顯示問題。此問題已解決。 [一〇七八][一〇七九]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於12月12日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於12月13日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於12月14日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一〇八〇][一〇八一]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

邀請維基媒體開發者社群填寫2023年開發者滿意度調查。如果您在維基媒體生態系統的-{zh-hans:软件;zh-hant:軟體;}-開發中佔有一角，請填寫此問卷調查。調查開放填寫至2024年1月5日，並請參閱相關隱私聲明。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一二月一二日（二）〇二時一二分 (UTC)[回覆]

2023年第51期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-这些-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-；不是所有的-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

技術新聞

因應假期，下一期技術新聞將於2024年1月8日發送。

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於12月19日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於12月20日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於12月21日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。下週沒有MediaWiki的新版本。 [一〇八二][一〇八三]
12月18日起，-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-將無法在測試功能選單將自己的-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-討論頁啟用結構式討論。已經啟用啟用結構式討論的-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-仍可以在測試功能選單停用此功能。這是結構式討論棄用作業的一部分。 [一〇八四]
-{zh-hans:模块;zh-hant:模組;}-命名空間將完全-{zh-hans:支持;zh-hant:支援;}--{zh-hans:重定向;zh-hant:重新導向;}-功能。頁面在使用「移動頁面」功能後將留下適當且可被-{zh-hans:软件;zh-hant:軟體;}-識別的-{zh-hans:重定向;zh-hant:重新導向;}-（例如不顯示在特殊:無連接頁面）。同時也將-{zh-hans:支持;zh-hant:支援;}-手動-{zh-hans:重定向;zh-hant:重新導向;}-。 [一〇八五]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的JavaScript-{zh-hans:文档;zh-hant:說明文件;}-將遷移至新格式。在遷移期間，您可以使用1.41版本閱讀舊-{zh-hans:文档;zh-hant:文件;}-。歡迎在計劃討論頁提供有關新網站的-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}-。
願望松是一項新行動，鼓勵維基媒體社群之間合作，為社群願望清單調查收集的願望開發解決方案。第一屆社群願望松將於3月15日至17日舉行。如果您身為使用者、開發者、設計者或產品負責人對計劃提案感興趣，您可以報名活動並了解更多-{zh-hans:信息;zh-hant:資訊}-。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二三年一二月一八日（一）一六時一八分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第02期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

mediawiki2latex工具能將wiki內容轉換為LaTeX、PDF、ODT和EPUB格式。由於最近的改進，現在-{zh-hans:代码;zh-hant:程式碼;}-運行速度快了許多。您也可以選擇在本機的Docker容器安裝該工具。
隨機頁面的選擇方式已更新，減少了某些頁面較不易被選中的問題。 [一〇八六]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於1月9日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於1月10日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於1月11日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一〇八七][一〇八八]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年一月九日（二）〇一時二〇分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第03期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

JSON-{zh-hans:内容类型;zh-hant:內容模型;}-頁面將改用tab而非空格進行自動-{zh-hans:缩进;zh-hant:縮排;}-。這將大幅縮減頁面大小。 [一〇八九]
小工具和個人-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-腳本現在可以使用JavaScript ES6（ES2015）和ES7（ES2016）語法。MediaWiki會驗證-{zh-hans:源代码;zh-hant:原始碼;}-以避免語法錯誤影響到其他網站功能，並確保腳本在所有支援的瀏覽器皆有效。小工具之前可以使用requiresES6選項，現已不再需要並將被移除。 [一〇九〇]
機器人密碼和-{zh-hans:仅所有者的OAuth消费者;zh-hant:僅擁有者的OAuth consumer;}-現在可以限制僅允許編輯特定頁面。 [一〇九一]
您現在可以感謝機器人所做的編輯。 [一〇九二]
2024年社群願望清單調查的最新進展已發布。敬請閱讀並提供-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}-。

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於1月16日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於1月17日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於1月18日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一〇九三][一〇九四]
1月17日起，將無法從Chrome瀏覽器的特定舊版本（版本51—66，2016—2018年間發布）-{zh-hans:登录;zh-hant:登入;}-維基媒體wiki。此外，iOS 12-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-和Mac OS 10.14的Safari-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-可能需要-{zh-hans:单独登录;zh-hant:分別登入;}-各個wiki。 [一〇九五]
jquery.cookie-{zh-hans:模块;zh-hant:模組;}-已在去年棄用並被mediawiki.cookie-{zh-hans:模块;zh-hant:模組;}-取代。任何剩餘的使用正在由腳本替換，本週也將移除臨時別名。 [一〇九六]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

德國維基媒體協會正在努力使重複使用參考文獻更容易。他們正在徵求有意參加-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-研究的人，這將在1月和2月以一對一-{zh-cn:视频对话;zh-hk:視像對話;zh-tw:視訊通話;}-進行。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年一月一六日（二）〇〇時一三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第04期技术新闻[纂]

問題

-{zh-hans:上传向导;zh-hk:上載精靈;zh-tw:上傳精靈;}-的一個錯誤阻止了-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-在-{zh-hans:上传;zh-hk:上載;zh-tw:上傳;}-媒體時-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結;}-到自己的-{zh-hans:用户页;zh-hk:用戶頁面;zh-tw:使用者頁面;}-。此問題已修復。 [一〇九七]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於1月23日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於1月24日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於1月25日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一〇九八][一〇九九]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年一月二三日（二）〇一時〇四分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第05期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

1月29日星期一開始，所有討論頁-{zh-hant:訊息;zh-hans:消息;}-的-{zh-hant:時間戳記;zh-hans:时间戳;}-將產生一個-{zh-hant:連結;zh-hans:链接;}-。這個-{zh-hant:連結;zh-hans:链接;}-是該留言的-{zh-hant:固定連結;zh-hans:固定链接;}-。即使留言被移動到其他位置，-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-仍可以找到他們正在尋找的留言。這將影響除英文維基百科之外的所有wiki。您可以在Diff和Mediawiki.org閱讀有關此-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-的更多-{zh-hans:信息;zh-hant:資訊;}-。 [一一〇〇]
對驗證碼進行了一些改進，使垃圾訊息機器人和腳本更難繞過它。如果您要對此-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-提供-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}-，請在此任務發表評論。工作人員正在監控與驗證碼相關的指標，以及帳號-{zh-hans:创建;zh-hant:建立;}-和編輯次數等輔助指標。

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於1月30日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於1月31日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於2月1日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一〇一][一一〇二]
2月1日，「工具」選單／側邊欄將添加一個-{zh-hant:連結;zh-hans:链接;}-，用於下載可-{zh-hant:連結;zh-hans:链接;}-至您正在-{zh-hant:檢視;zh-hans:查看;}-頁面的QR碼。同時將有一個新的特殊:QrCode頁面，用於為任何維基媒體URL-{zh-hans:创建;zh-hant:建立;}-QR碼。這解決了2023年社群願望清單調查的最高票願望第19名。 [一一〇三]
小工具原先使用targets選項限定可以在哪些-{zh-hans:皮肤;zh-hant:外觀}-使用。這將在本週停止作用。取而代之，您應該使用skins選項。 [一一〇四]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年一月二九日（一）一九時三一分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第06期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

-{zh-hans:手机版网站;zh-hant:行動版網頁;}-的-{zh-hans:修订历史;zh-hant:修訂紀錄;}-頁面現在使用和桌面版相同的HTML。如果您在-{zh-hans:手机版;zh-hant:行動版;}--{zh-hans:修订历史;zh-hant:修訂紀錄;}-的使用上遇到任何問題，請在此phabricator任務指出。
在大多數wiki上，管理員現在可以-{zh-hans:封禁;zh-hant:封鎖;}--{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-的特定操作。可封鎖的操作包括：「-{zh-hans:上传文件（包括覆盖文件）;zh-hant:上傳檔案（包括覆蓋檔案）;}-」、「-{zh-hans:创建新页面及上传新文件;zh-hant:建立新頁面及上傳新檔案;}-」、「-{zh-hans:移动页面及文件;zh-hant:移動頁面及檔案;}-」和「-{zh-hans:发送感谢;zh-hant:傳送感謝;}-」。此功能的目的是讓管理員做出的-{zh-hans:封禁;zh-hant:封鎖;}-能夠符合被-{zh-hans:封禁;zh-hant:封鎖;}--{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-的行為。了解關於「操作-{zh-hans:封禁;zh-hant:封鎖;}-」的更多-{zh-hans:信息;zh-hant:資訊;}-。 [一一〇五][一一〇六]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於2月6日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於2月7日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於2月8日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一〇七][一一〇八]
包含變音符號和非拉丁文字的討論頁-{zh-hant:固定連結;zh-hans:固定链接;}-出現故障。此問題已修復。 [一一〇九]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

將「參考文獻提示工具」設為-{zh-hans:默认;zh-hant:預設;}-小工具的24個維基百科被鼓勵移除其-{zh-hans:默认;zh-hant:預設;}-標籤。這將使「參考文獻預覽」成為新的-{zh-hans:默认;zh-hant:預設;}-參考彈窗工具，從而帶來更加一致的跨維基體驗。對於-{zh-hans:界面;zh-hant:介面;}-管理員少於4名的46個維基百科，除非存在顧慮，否則已安排在2月中旬進行-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-。如果您的wiki提供舊的「參考文獻提示工具」，您仍可以在設定中啟用它並正常使用，它將覆蓋此新功能。 [一一一〇][一一一一]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年二月五日（一）一九時二二分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第07期技术新闻[纂]

最近-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

維基數據查詢服務（WDQS）圖表拆分實驗正在進行並載入到3個測試伺服器上。負責團隊正在測試拆分的影響，並要求WDQS-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-透過UI或以程式設計方式在不同管道提供-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}-（如：[一一一二][一一一三][一一一四]）。-{zh-cn:用户;zh-hk:用戶;zh-tw:使用者;}-的-{zh-cn:反馈;zh-hk:反饋;zh-tw:回饋;}-將驗證圍繞維基數據查詢服務的各種用例和工作流程的影響。 [一一一五][一一一六]

問題

使用-{zh-hans:移动设备;zh-hant:行動裝置;}--{zh-hans:访问;zh-hant:存取;}-wiki網站時發生一個錯誤，該錯誤會使已造訪-{zh-hans:链接;zh-hant:連結;}-顯示為黑色。此問題已修復。

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於2月13日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於2月14日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於2月15日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一一七][一一一八]
隨著Grid Engine棄用作業[一一一九]持續進行，Grid Engine上的工具將從2024年2月14日起停止運作。如果您有正在積極遷移的工具，您可以要求延期以防工具停止運作。 [一一二〇]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年二月一三日（二）〇五時四九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第08期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;zh-hk:用戶;}-这些-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-；不是所有的-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

如果您啟用了「哨新，遣函」選項，機器人帳號執行的編輯將不再觸發電子郵件通知。以前，只有小修改不會觸發電子郵件通知。 [一一二一]
特定wiki在Vector 2022-{zh-hans:皮肤;zh-hant:外觀;}-下，-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;zh-hk:用戶;}-和網站腳本的-{zh-hans:加载;zh-hant:載入;}-方式有一些-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-。此-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-影響以下wiki：以舊版Vector為-{zh-hans:默认皮肤;zh-hant:預設外觀;}-的所有-{zh-hans:项目;zh-hant:專案;}-、維基導遊和維基教科書。其它wiki則將在未來三個月內受到影響。小工具不受影響。如果您受此影響或希望盡量減少對-{zh-hans:项目;zh-hant:專案;}-的影響，請參閱此工單。敬請積極配合、積極行動。
新的自動-{zh-hans:创建账户;zh-hant:建立帳號;}-（您造訪新wiki時獲得的-{zh-hans:账户;zh-hant:帳號;}-）現在與在該 wiki上的新註冊-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;zh-hk:用戶;}-具有相同的本地通知設定。此-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-影響任務說明中列出的四種通知類型。
-{zh-hans:上传向导;zh-hant:上傳精靈;zh-hk:上載精靈;}-可-{zh-hans:上传;zh-hant:上傳;zh-hk:上載;}-的-{zh-hans:最大文件大小;zh-hant:檔案大小限制}-現在為5 GiB。 [一一二二]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於2月20日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於2月21日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於2月22日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一二三][一一二四]

由於我們準備在2024年3月14日關閉Grid Engine，Grid上的部分工具已停止運行。工具的-{zh-hans:代码;zh-hant:程式碼;}-和-{zh-hans:数据;zh-hant:資料;}-尚未刪除。如果您是維護人員並且希望重新啟用您的工具，請聯絡我們的團隊。只有請求延期的工具仍在Grid上運行。
現在wikitext中可以在HTML的style屬性中使用CSS的filter屬性。 [一一二五]

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • -{zh-hans:获取帮助;zh-hant:取得協助}- • 提供-{zh-hans:反馈;zh-hant:回饋;zh-hk:反饋;}- • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年二月一九日（一）一五時三七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第09期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;}-这些-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-；不是所有的-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的翻译版本。

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

在一少部分wiki，從未編輯過的-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-會優先使用-{zh-hant:行動版視覺化編輯器;zh-hans:手机版可视化编辑器;}-。研究顯示該編輯器的-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;}-稍較容易發布他們開始編輯的內容，而稍較不容易發布不會被回退的編輯。將wikitext編輯器設為桌面版-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-編輯器的-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;}-，在-{zh-hant:行動板;zh-hans:手机版;}-首次編輯時也會得到wikitext編輯器。 [一一二六]
mw.config的wgGlobalGroups現在僅包含該wiki上活躍的群組。腳本不再需要-{zh-hant:透過;zh-hans:通过;}-API請求來檢查群組在wiki上是否活躍。上述的-{zh-hant:程式碼範例;zh-hans:代码示例;}-如下：if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))。 [一一二七]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於2月27日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於2月28日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於2月29日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一二八][一一二九]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

在維基媒體網站中，更改編輯標籤的權限（changetags）將從-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-的權限群組中移除，只有管理員和機器人-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-持有。您的社群可以在發生-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-前要求為您的wiki保留舊配置。若要保留，請於2024年3月底前在此工單指出。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • -{zh-hans:获取帮助;zh-hant:取得協助}- • 提供-{zh-hans:反馈;zh-hant:回饋;}- • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年二月二六日（一）一九時二三分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第10期技术新闻[纂]

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

舊Collection-{zh-hant:擴充功能;zh-hans:扩展;}-提供的Special:Book頁面（以及相關的「-{zh-hant:建立書籍;zh-hans:创建图书;}-」功能）因故障已從所有維基文庫中移除。維基文庫-{zh-hant:擴充功能;zh-hans:扩展;}-提供的普通-{zh-hant:書籍;zh-hans:图书;}-下載仍然可用，不受此影響。 [一一三〇]
Wikitech現在-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-使用-{zh-hant:次世代;zh-hans:下一代;}-Parsoid wikitext解析器-{zh-hant:產生;zh-hans:生成;}-「討論」命名空間的所有頁面。如果您遇到任何問題，請在已知問題討論頁回報。您可以使用ParserMigration（解析移轉）-{zh-hant:擴充功能;zh-hans:扩展;}-來控制Parsoid的使用；詳情請見ParserMigration-{zh-hant:說明文件;zh-hans:帮助文档;}-。
Etherpad已維護完成。如果您遇到任何問題，請在此工單指出。
小工具（Gadget）讓-{zh-hans:界面;zh-hant:介面;}-管理員能使用CSS和JavaScript-{zh-hant:建立;zh-hans:创建;}--{zh-hant:自訂;zh-hans:自定义;}-功能。2015年的實驗預留了Gadget和Gadget_definition命名空間以及gadgets-definition-edit-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-權限，但這三者但從未使用過，並且在Special:Search和Special:ListGroupRights上可見。未使用的命名空間和-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-權限現已刪除，無需移動任何頁面，也無需進行任何更改。 [一一三一]
維基百科-{zh-hant:工作流程;zh-hans:工作流;}-中的「-{zh-hant:新增;zh-hans:添加;}-引用」得到了可用性改進，「插入」按鈕已移至彈窗標題。 [一一三二]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於3月5日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於3月6日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於3月7日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一三三][一一三四]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

3月20日，所有wiki將切換至-{zh-hant:唯讀;zh-hans:只读;}-狀態幾分鐘，預定於14:00 UTC開始。更多-{zh-hant:資訊;zh-hans:信息;}-將在「技術新聞」發布，並在未來幾週內發送至各個wiki。 [一一三五]
為了增進無障礙，標題和章節編輯-{zh-hant:連結;zh-hans:链接;}-的HTML標記將在今年稍後進行-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-。詳情請見標題HTML-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-。新的標記將與新的Parsoid wikitext解析器中的相同。如果要使用新標記測試小工具或樣式表，您可以在URL添加?useparsoid=1（更多-{zh-hant:資訊;zh-hans:信息;}-）或在-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}--{zh-hant:設定;zh-hans:设置;}-中啟用Parsoid閱讀視圖（更多-{zh-hant:資訊;zh-hans:信息;}-）。

技术新闻由技术新闻编者准备，并由机器人送达 • 贡献 • 翻译 • -{zh-hans:获取帮助;zh-hant:取得協助;}- • 提供-{zh-hans:反馈;zh-hant:回饋;}- • 订阅或退订。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年三月四日（一）一九時四七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第11期技术新闻[纂]

本週-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於3月12日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於3月13日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於3月14日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一三六][一一三七]
在諮詢多個社群後，Minerva-{zh-hant:外觀;zh-hans:皮肤;}-的-{zh-hant:文字;zh-hans:文本;}-行高將增加至先前值1.65。依照需求，-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;}-亦可於-{zh-hant:選單;zh-hans:菜单;}-中-{zh-hant:設定;zh-hans:设置;}-不同的排版選項。 [一一三八]
Minerva中被點中-{zh-hant:連結;zh-hans:链接;}-（active link）的顏色將更改，以提供與我們其他平台以及最佳實踐更加一致的體驗。 [一一三九]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [一一四〇]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

3月20日，所有wiki將切換至-{zh-hant:唯讀;zh-hans:只读;}-狀態幾分鐘，預定於14:00 UTC開始。更多-{zh-hant:資訊;zh-hans:信息;}-將在技術新聞發布，並在未來幾週內發送至各個wiki。 [一一四一][一一四二]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年三月一一日（一）二三時〇四分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第12期技术新闻[纂]

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

Vector 2022-{zh-hant:外觀;zh-hans:皮肤;}--{zh-hant:主選單;zh-hans:主菜单;}-中的「-{zh-hant:語言連結位於頁面頂端;zh-hans:语言链接位于页面顶部;}-」提示已移除，因-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-已了解語言切換器的新位置。 [一一四三]
IP-{zh-hant:資訊;zh-hans:信息;}-功能現在顯示來自IP-{zh-hant:位址;zh-hans:地址;}--{zh-hant:資料;zh-hans:数据;}-庫Spur的-{zh-hant:資料;zh-hans:数据;}-。此功能原本只使用MaxMind的-{zh-hant:資料;zh-hans:数据;}-。現在「IP-{zh-hant:資訊;zh-hans:信息;}-」能更幫助巡查員。 [一一四四]
從Grid Engine到Kubernetes的最終遷移流程結束後，Toolforge的Grid Engine服務已關閉。 [一一四五][一一四六][一一四七]
社群現在可以-{zh-hant:建立;zh-hans:创建;}-MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown來-{zh-hant:自訂;zh-hans:自定义;}-還原頁面的-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-原因。 [一一四八]

問題

-{zh-hant:修訂時間軸;zh-hans:修订滑块;}-（RevisionSlider）是一個-{zh-hant:互動式;zh-hans:交互式;}-瀏覽頁面歷史的-{zh-hant:介面;zh-hans:界面;}-。從右至左書寫語言的-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-回報-{zh-hant:修訂時間軸;zh-hans:修订滑块;}-對-{zh-hant:滑鼠;zh-hans:鼠标;}-點擊的反應錯誤。此問題應已解決。 [一一四九]

本週變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於3月19日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org。它將於3月20日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於3月21日部署至所有wiki（參見日曆）。 [一一五〇][一一五一]
3月20日，所有wiki將切換至-{zh-hant:唯讀;zh-hans:只读;}-狀態幾分鐘，預定於14:00 UTC開始。 [一一五二][一一五三]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年三月一八日（一）一七時三九分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第13期技术新闻[纂]

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

2024年3月18日，更新了各-{zh-hant:維基媒體專案;zh-hans:维基媒体项目;}-在Vector 2022-{zh-hant:外觀;zh-hans:皮肤;}-下，網站、-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}--{zh-hant:自訂;zh-hans:自定义;}-JavaScript和CSS的-{zh-hant:載入;zh-hans:加载;}-方式。有一份檢查清單供站點管理員參考。

本週變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於3月26日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於3月27日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於3月28日部署至所有站點（參見日曆）。 [一一五四][一一五五]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年三月二五日（一）一八時五六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第14期技术新闻[纂]

维基媒体技术社群现在发布最新的技术新闻。请告知其他-{zh-hans:用户;zh-hant:使用者;}-这些-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-；不是所有的-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-都会对您造成影响。技术新闻提供其它语言的-{zh-hans:翻译版本;zh-hant:譯文版本;}-。

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

無障礙閱讀測試功能的-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-將注意到「標準」和「大」-{zh-hant:文字;zh-hans:文本;}-大小選項的-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-行高已更改。 [一一五六]

本週變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於4月2日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於4月3日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於4月4日部署至所有站點（參見日曆）。 [一一五七][一一五八]

未來-{zh-hans:更改;zh-hant:變更;}-

維基媒體基金會每年都會制定年度計畫，以決定基金會將致力進行的事項。您現在可以閱讀產品與技術部門的關鍵成果草案。該草案建議基金會於2024年7月至2025年6月間，在重大技術變革中希望獲得的成果。您可以在討論頁發表評論。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年四月二日（二）〇三時三六分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第15期技术新闻[纂]

-{zh-hans:最近更改;zh-hant:近期變更;}-

網路瀏覽器中可以使用-{zh-hant:擴充功能;zh-hans:扩展程序;}-工具。現在有一個名為Citation Needed的Chrome-{zh-hant:擴充功能;zh-hans:扩展程序;}-，您可以使用它來查看網路上的內容是否受維基百科條目支持。這是個測試維基百科運用方式的小實驗。不過因為是小實驗，所以僅限於Chrome瀏覽器使用，且僅能用於英文內容。
所有wiki均加入了新功能「编辑恢复」，可在-{zh-hant:偏好設定;zh-hans:参数设置;}-中启用。启用后，正在进行的编辑将-{zh-hant:儲存;zh-hans:保存;}-在網路瀏覽器中，如果您意外关闭编辑-{zh-hant:視窗;zh-hans:窗口;}-，或是浏览器或-{zh-hant:電腦;zh-hans:计算机;}-崩溃，再次開啟时，网页将提示您恢复未發布的-{zh-hant:文字;zh-hans:文本;}-。请在-{zh-hant:專案;zh-hans:项目;}-讨论页留言-{zh-hant:回饋;zh-hans:反馈;}-。这是2023年社群愿望清单调查中的第八位。
「编辑检查」实验的初步结果已发布。编辑检查现已作为-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-功能部署至先前测试它的wiki。如果您希望您所在的wiki成為下一批编辑检查的部署對象，联系我们。 [一一五九][一一六〇]
在-{zh-hant:行動裝置;zh-hans:移动设备;}-上使用Minerva-{zh-hant:外觀;zh-hans:皮肤;}-的讀者將注意到所有排版-{zh-hant:設定;zh-hans:设置;}-的行高皆有改進。 [一一六一]

本週變更

MediaWiki的新版本將於4月9日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於4月10日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於4月11日部署至所有站點（參見日曆）。 [一一六二][一一六三]
新-{zh-hant:帳號;zh-hans:账号;}-和登出的-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-将以-{zh-hant:視覺化;zh-hans:可视化;}-编辑器作为-{zh-hant:行動版;zh-hans:移动版;}-的-{zh-hant:預設;zh-hans:默认;}-编辑器。除英语维基百科外，所有维基百科均进行此部署。 [一一六四]

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年四月八日（一）二三時三七分 (UTC)[回覆]

2024年第16期技術新聞[纂]

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他-{zh-hant:使用者;zh-hans:用户;}-這些-{zh-hant:變更;zh-hans:更改;}-；不是所有的-{zh-hant:變更;zh-hans:更改;}-都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其它語言的-{zh-hant:譯文版本;zh-hans:翻译版本;}-。

問題

4月2日至8日間，在使用標記修訂的wiki上，被-{zh-hant:還原;zh-hans:撤销;}-的編輯未被加上「已被回退」標籤。此外，頁面移動、保護和-{zh-hant:匯入;zh-hans:导入;}-操作未自動標記為已巡查。此問題已解決。 [一一六五][一一六六]

本週-{zh-hant:變更;zh-hans:更改;}-

MediaWiki的新版本將於4月16日部署至測試維基及MediaWiki.org，於4月17日部署至非維基百科wiki及部分維基百科，並於4月18日部署至所有站點（參見日程表）。 [一一六七][一一六八]
-{zh-hant:預設分類排序方式;zh-hans:默认分类排序关键字;}-現在會影響腳註中放置的模板所-{zh-hant:新增;zh-hans:添加;}-的分類。先前，腳註中的分類使用頁面標題作為-{zh-hant:預設排序方式;zh-hans:默认排序关键字;}-，即使已經指定了不同的-{zh-hant:預設排序方式;zh-hans:默认排序关键字;}-（分類專用的-{zh-hant:排序方式;zh-hans:排序关键字;}-已經生效）。 [一一六九]
-{zh-hant:防濫用過濾器;zh-hans:滥用过滤器;}-將-{zh-hant:新增;zh-hans:添加;}-新-{zh-hant:變數;zh-hans:变量;}-page_last_edit_age。該-{zh-hant:變數;zh-hans:变量;}-表示頁面的最後一次編輯是在多少秒前。 [一一七〇]

未來-{zh-hant:變更;zh-hans:更改;}-

懇請志願開發者們更新您維護的工具和功能的-{zh-hant:程式碼;zh-hans:代码;}-以應對臨時-{zh-hant:帳號;zh-hans:账号;}-。了解更多。
-{zh-hant:資料庫;zh-hans:数据库;}-副本（包括Quarry）中將移除四個-{zh-hant:資料庫欄位;zh-hans:数据库字段;}-。這僅影響abuse_filter和abuse_filter_history表格。某些查詢可能需要更新。 [一一七一]

技術新聞由技術新聞編者準備，並由機器人送達 • 貢獻 • 翻譯 • -{zh-hant:取得協助;zh-hans:获取帮助;}- • 提供-{zh-hant:回饋;zh-hans:反馈;}- • 訂閱或退訂。

MediaWiki message delivery 二〇二四年四月一五日（一）二三時二九分 (UTC)[回覆]