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Tech News: 2022-31

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

• Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. 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.

Future meetings

• This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi, JPxG. You created me to update the Module:Signpost indices, but I can't, because they're autoconfirmed-protected, and I'm not autoconfirmed! WegweiserBot (talk) 04:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Wow, WegweiserBot, that sounds rough. But it's pretty easy to overcome, right? jp×g 04:53, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Whatever could you mean, JPxG? WegweiserBot (talk) 04:53, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, you just need to make ten edits, right? So do that. jp×g 04:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

How? The module indices are AC-protected, so I can't even get started on my ten edits. WegweiserBot (talk) 04:54, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, there are some other things you could do, like getting into an edit war with another bot over something stupid like the whitespace on a template. That's a great way to get your edit count up quickly. jp×g 04:56, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

I don't know, JPxG, that sounds dumb. I'm still under the trial period, remember? If they see that in my edit history, my BRFA is going to get denied for sure. Not to mention that it would reflect poorly on whoever programmed me... WegweiserBot (talk) 04:57, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

You're right. Well, what if you did some useful, productive task that didn't require autoconfirmed status? jp×g 04:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

No, sorry, the guy who programmed me is far too much of a lazy bastard to come up with something like that. I think it's gotta be something simple. WegweiserBot (talk) 04:58, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

What if you just had a long, rambling, pointless conversation on a talk page? jp×g 04:59, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

That would still be violating the terms of my BRFA trial -- I'm only supposed to be editing stuff in Module:Signpost space. WegweiserBot (talk) 05:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Oh, right. Well, surely there's got to be SOME page you're allowed to edit, right? jp×g 05:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Hey, you know what? Bots are allowed to operate without BRFA authorization within their owners' userspace, so I could just do it there until I slogged my way up to ten edits. What do you think? WegweiserBot (talk) 05:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, you could give it a try, but he might get bored before you got to ten edits. jp×g 05:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

What do you mean? Having a long, rambling conversation with yourself where you pretend to be two different people is a really funny gimmick. Surely there's a lot of mileage in that bit. WegweiserBot (talk) 05:03, 8 January 2023 (UTC)