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Tech News: 2023-18

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

Recent changes

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1][2][3]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [4]
• The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [5]

Changes later this week

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

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Empty edit request

Regarding this edit, please educate me. What is an empty edit request? (It's not defined at Wikipedia:Edit requests,) - Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:30, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

@Butwhatdoiknow: Hello! I believe you are overthinking it – an empty edit request is when someone places {{edit protected}} (or a different edit request template) but does not say what they actually want changed. Best, HouseBlaster^talk 21:03, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! - Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 00:33, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-19

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

Recent changes

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [6]
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [7]
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [8]

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [10]

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [11]
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [12][13]
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [14]

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History merging

While I appreciate editors helping, it's really not all that great to make history merge requests from the WPHM set. It ultimately makes more work for the admin. There I can just walk down the list and be done with about 50-100 entries at any given time. Ad hoc into the relevant category just obscures the pages from recent times that may need history merging, and requires me to click around and even make edits that I wouldn't have needed to do so working from that list. I'm not really asking you to stop doing it, but I also am not not asking you.

It also 100% not helpful to remove the links from there before an admin does the history merging. If you're going to continue your efforts on the point, leave the links there until the queue gets cleaned. Izno (talk) 22:16, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

@Izno: I have thought a bit about this. Regarding your second paragraph, understood. I believe I only did so twice, and for those two times I will review the ones I removed to make sure they were actually done.

Regarding your first paragraph, as you are no doubt aware, the list contains many that do not need history merging. I believe that tagging the relevant pages with {{nahmc}} and removing those from the list is useful. And I realize this might sound snarky, but sincerely, please tell me if I am missing something and that still creates more work for the admin corps. Otherwise, I will continue to assist by doing that task. More suspect, but I believe still helpful, would be posting the ones at WP:SPLICE that, if encountered "in the wild", would need a post there to explain the convoluted history-related mess (these cases are, I believe, a subset of the ones where clicking the "merge history" link is not sufficient). Again, seriously, please tell me if doing so is not helpful.

Finally, a genuine thank you for actually leaving me a message about this – I can't fix problems I don't realize I am creating. HouseBlaster^talk 01:14, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

From a work-creation standpoint, removing pages which don't need history merges is fine. I am not totally certain someone who isn't an admin should make that call, but it's a thing that I think has enough positive that I don't feel a need to chase someone doing it.

I am not however convinced about if encountered "in the wild", would need a post there to explain the convoluted history-related mess. Something with a convoluted history related mess in this set of pages is probably suitable for declining for WP:PARALLEL reasons, and you're probably making more work for yourself ultimately by cruising the WPHM lists for these cases. Izno (talk) 01:29, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Abridgment article

I have reviewed your reversion of the abridgment article. However, under Wikipedia’s manual of style, all spellings should be consistent with the predominant English variety used within the article. It occurs to me that this predominant variety in the article is American. Although abridgement occurs more often than abridgment in the article, the article uses American spellings and terms specifically in its construction - from favor to junkyard to automobile to “college” to its use of the spelling percent instead of the common British construction per cent. As such, I have fixed the article. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. McDonald46 (talk) 05:48, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199545155.001.0001/acref-9780199545155-e-7440;jsessionid=28F7E32B22A990DCA063634CB03F6428, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/junkyard, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/automobile?q=automobile McDonald46 (talk) 06:15, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

@McDonald46: please see my reply at Talk:Abridgment § English variation. Best, HouseBlaster^talk 16:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

I can’t seem to move Abridgment’s title back. McDonald46 (talk) 04:46, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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Question from 23donseld001 (17:56, 12 May 2023)

I want to translate an article from another language into English. Isn't there a special page that makes it easy for me to do that task? Can you help me find it? --23donseld001 (talk) 17:56, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

@23donseld001: hello, and welcome! I believe you are referring to the content translation tool. Unfortunately, due to previous misuse, you will not be able to publish an article made with this tool directly into the "mainspace" (where articles are located). However, according to the publishing instructions, you should be able to select "personal draft" as the publishing location. From there, you can let me know and I would be happy to take a look at it and publish it to the mainspace. Does that help? HouseBlaster^talk 18:23, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [15]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [16]

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [17]

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Tech News: 2023-21

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

Recent changes

• The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [18]

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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A cheeseburger for you!

Thanks for fixing lint errors on my userpages. ––FormalDude (talk) 10:44, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #26

Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

One million Suggested Edits

We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!

• The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (source)
• Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (source)
• Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
• Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. (source)

Positive reinforcement

Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.

• The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis. [20]
• The Leveling up features are deployed at our pilot wikis.
• The Personalized praise features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.

Add an image

• We are creating a new section-level variation of the “add an image” task. We have tested the accuracy of suggestions, and the development of this new task is well-underway. [21]

Other updates

• We are progressively releasing Add a link to more wikis. [22]
• After adding Thanks to Recent Changes, Watchlist and Special:Contributions, we investigated Thanks usage on the wikis. There is no evidence that thanks increased after the feature was added on more pages.
• We helped with code review for the 2023 Community Wish to add Notifications for user page edits. [23]
• We have been attending several community events, that we documented in our Growth’s Community events report.

What's next for Growth?

• We shared an overview of Growth annual planning ideas, and have started community discussion about these potential projects. We would love to hear your feedback on these ideas!

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Tech News: 2023-22

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

Recent changes

• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [24]
• The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [25]

Problems

• For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [27]

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May 2023 NPP Drive Award

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This award is given to HouseBlaster for collecting more than 40 points doing redirect reviews, in the May 2023 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your help in bringing down the backlog. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:37, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-23

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

Recent changes

• The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
• Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [28]
• Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [29]

Problems

• For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [30]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [31]

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Question from Vidz Shingri (13:02, 31 May 2023)

Do people get salary form wikipedia? --Vidz Shingri (talk) 13:02, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

@Vidz Shingri: Hello, and welcome! Everyone who writes what you read on Wikipedia does so on a volunteer basis, but some people are employed by the Wikimedia Foundation do get paid. Let me know if you have any other questions, and have a great day! Best, HouseBlaster^talk 17:49, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

How can I get paid by wikipedia ? Vidz Shingri (talk) 06:02, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

@Vidz Shingri: First, you should know that you do not get paid for writing/improving articles. Getting paid by the Foundation means working a regular job, like you would for any other salary. With that out of the way, you can apply here. HouseBlaster^talk 20:40, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-24

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

Recent changes

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [32]
• The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [33]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [34]
• The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [35]

Problems

• For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [36]
• Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [37]
• Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [39]

Future changes

• From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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Question from Star6969 (08:01, 13 June 2023)

45degreesx56 --Star6969 (talk) 08:01, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

@Star6969: I am not sure what you mean. Do you have a question about Wikipedia? If so, I would be happy to answer it! Best, HouseBlaster^talk 21:29, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Daniel Ezenyi

Daniel Ezenyi is a young actor from London known for (Choose or die)and the anticipated shorts (Run outs) 2023 and (1UP)2023 Saieze (talk) 14:21, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saieze (14:16, 14 June 2023)

How do I create a a page --Saieze (talk) 14:16, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

@Saieze: you should follow the steps at the article wizard. You can find more information at this page on creating your first article on Wikipedia. Let me know if you have any other questions! HouseBlaster^talk 23:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-25

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

Recent changes

• Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [40][41]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [42][43]

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Question from JSeureka (04:54, 22 June 2023)

Hey i was making a new Wikipage thing for this youtuber and it kept saying that i was "unconstructive" i guess i removed too many words when i was redoing stuff. how i do i get around this. --JSeureka (talk) 04:54, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

@JSeureka: Hello! To be eligible for a page on Wikipedia, you must be considered "notable". You can read about the notability of YouTubers here. May I ask why you want to add information about this YouTuber in particular? Best, HouseBlaster^talk 01:50, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

I wanted to talk about this guy because I'm doing a school project on YouTubers, and I chose him. Surprisingly, he doesn't have a Wikipedia page, so I thought I could just write one for him. I mean, other YouTubers have their own Wikipedia pages, so it's kinda unfair, right? JSeureka (talk) 02:55, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

@JSeureka: Not really. On Wikipedia, just because Person A has an article does not mean that Person B gets one, too. You need to have significant coverage in multiple secondary, independent, reliable sources to qualify for a Wikipedia article. If they do not have that, they cannot have a Wikipedia article. HouseBlaster^talk 03:00, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

You have a good point there. Just because one person has a Wikipedia article doesn't mean everyone automatically gets one. So if I put the sources of things I put would that make it notable? JSeureka (talk) 03:05, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

@JSeureka: It depends on the quality of the sources. For example, if there was an in-depth biography written in The New York Times about Person A, that qualifies as a secondary, independent, and reliable source on Person A and thus contributes to notability. However, if Person A were to make a YoutTube video about himself, that is not an "independent" source and thus does not count towards notability. However, it could be used to support information in an article about Person A if there are already other sources that show Person A is notable, because Person A is obviously a reliable source of information about Person A. Does that make sense? Wikipedia's rules surrounding notability are very complex, so I am sorry if anything here is confusing. If it is confusing, please ask more questions! Sincerely, HouseBlaster^talk 03:14, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Hey, what do you think of this so far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JSeureka/sandbox JSeureka (talk) 04:24, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

@JSeureka: Unfortunately, I am fairly certain that Bruce Condones does not qualify for an article at this time, and that is no fault of your own. None of the sources in the article are contribute to meeting the general notability guideline (you will often see this abbreviated to "GNG"), and I was unable to locate any sources that would contribute to the GNG. Here is a table evaluating the sources in the article:

Source assessment table: prepared by User:HouseBlaster

Source	Independent?	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
https://www.youtube.com/user/BruceDropEmOff/about	Presumably written by Condones himself	He is clearly a reliable source about himself	? The link does not work for me, so I am unable to determine if it is "significant".	✘ No
https://twitter.com/raycondones/status/1307904356793147392?lang=en	Also likely written by Condones himself	Again, he is clearly a reliable source about himself	Not in-depth coverage	✘ No
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-brucedropemoff-stuns-fans-collaborating-rapper-lucki-twitch-stream		The consensus of editors is that Sportskeeda is not a reliable source.	Clearly in-depth coverage	✘ No
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-can-t-stream-main-fans-worried-brucedropemoff-stream-alternate-channel-gets-banned-alleged-racism		See above		✘ No
https://streamerbans.com/user/brucedropemoff		I am not sure if streamerbans.com is reliable or not, but let's say it is for the sake of discussion.	Not in-depth coverage	✘ No
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-welcome-brother-brucedropemoff-joins-kick-adin-ross-fans-react		See above		✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

As you can see, in my judgement, I do not believe that Condones is eligible for an article at this time. The good news is there are already 6,922,828 articles for you to improve! If you want to work on articles about YouTubers, you can check out the "WikiProject" on YouTube, which is a group of editors who work together on improving, well, articles about YouTubers. Best, HouseBlaster^talk 21:46, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-26

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Recent changes

• The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [44]

Problems

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [45][46]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [47][48]
• Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [49]
• All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [50]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [51]

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Question from Hamzasaif18 (11:34, 2 July 2023)

I am not understanding the whole concept of child labouring usually common in south Asian countries like Pakistan,India, Bangladesh. also it is growing day by day and no proper precautions can be made in order to avoid such circumstances --Hamzasaif18 (talk) 11:34, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Hamzasaif18, that is a good question, but not one I can answer. I am here to answer questions about editing Wikipedia. Do you have any about that? Best, HouseBlaster^talk 05:43, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Minecrat

I noticed that you tagged this redirect as "of dubious utility". What does this mean? The category seems to suggest that it is a recommendation that pages not link to it, but does it also suggest that the redirect shouldn't exist? RedPanda25 20:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

RedPanda25, I tagged it as "of dubious utility" because I considered it an unlikely misspelling; for example, it is not a phonetic spelling. It is no more likely a typo than witchcrat, snowdrit, or copylet, but it also is not harmful. HouseBlaster^talk 05:43, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-27

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• As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [53]
• From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [54]

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

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Tech News: 2023-28

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Recent changes

• The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
• Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [55]
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [56]
• The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
• The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [57]
• Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [58]

Future changes

• There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [59]
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Question from Linology (08:14, 10 July 2023)

I like to edit the articles .Can you please suggest which area iI need to cover --Linology (talk) 08:14, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

@Linology: That largely depends on what you are interested in. What do you like to do for fun? I can help you come up with a list of potential articles based on your interests. HouseBlaster^talk 22:41, 10 July 2023 (UTC)