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Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [1]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [2]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [3]

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

• News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked

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• Traffic report: After the gold rush

• Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

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Clue Bot III, Islam and secularism

Why won't Clue Bot III work in Islam and secularism article in the English Wikipedia? Are there something wrong that I put in there, that's why it haven't been archived yet? Please do something to help me archive the talkpage in Talk:Islam and secularism article in wikipedia! Pineapplethen (talk) 09:12, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Looks like it got round to it - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 12:56, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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@Liz: Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars RichBot is only authorized to act in draft space outside of checking copyvios. Hence why that existed, I just forgot to request speedy after finishing with it - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 12:55, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

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• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [7]
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ClueBot NG: Reverting vandalism failure

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Cluebot III named page Archive1 instead of Archive_1

Hi, I added the Cluebot III archving template to my talk page for first-time archiving. I first researched the help guide and looked at other talk pages with Cluebot to make sure the simple set of parameters I chose worked, including the recommended | numberstart=1. An hour later the bot came along and instead of creating the url folder User talk:5Q5/Archive_1 it named it User talk:5Q5/Archive1 without the underscore. As a result, the "Archive 1" link in the right side Archives box won't work, but the "Index" link does go to "Archive1." Any idea what went wrong? Should I revert and try again with a change in the template and if so what? Thanks. 5Q5|^✉ 13:09, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

@5Q5: Underscores on Wikipedia mean a space (just look at the address bar when on my talk page), so I think CB3 strips them out. However, the Archives box is taking the _ literally, and hence adding the space back in - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 13:45, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

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