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Affiliations Committee News (January-March 2024)

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Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.

Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: Recognition of Cyprus, Botswana, Niger, and Telugu user groups

Affiliate Activities Report: Reports from Belgium, South African, and Ukrainian chapters

AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom engagement with the new Affiliates Strategy and Movement Charter drafts

AffCom Administration: New AffCom members and advisors

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Tech News: 2024-17

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

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [2][3]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:28, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians of Japan User Group 2024-04

全体ニュース

• ウィキメディア運動憲章の下書き（英語）が公表され、4月29日まで意見を募集しています。意見は日本語で書けます。
• ユニバーサル行動規範調整委員会選挙の投票期間は5月7日までです。

「Wikimedians of Japan User Group」 からのお知らせ

• ESEAPカンファレンス2024がマレーシアのコタキナバルにて、5月10日から12日まで開催されます。ユーザーグループのメンバーも参加します。
• Open Source Conference 2024 Nagoyaが名古屋で5月25日に開催されます。ユーザーグループのメンバーも参加します。

日本語版ウィキペディア

• 良質な記事の選考
  • 南満洲鉄道ジテ1型気動車が選考中(2024年5月10日 (水) 16:35 (UTC)まで)
  • 患者安全が選考中(2024年5月10日 (水) 16:37 (UTC)まで)
  • ウクライナ文学が選考中(2024年5月9日 (木) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
  • 遺伝子が選考中(2024年5月9日 (木) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
  • 南画が選考中(2024年5月9日 (木) 00:05 (UTC)まで)
  • PlayStation 4のゲームタイトル一覧 (2017年)が選考中(2024年5月12日 (金) 07:58 (UTC)まで)
  • 岸辺露伴 ルーヴルへ行く (映画)が選考中(2024年4月29日 (月) 16:29 (UTC)まで)
  • 装盾亜目が選考中(2024年5月4日 (土) 05:59 (UTC)まで)
  • うみへび座が選考中(2024年5月6日 (月) 14:20 (UTC)まで)
  • みずがめ座が選考中(2024年5月6日 (月) 14:20 (UTC)まで)
  • 後円融天皇が選考中(2024年5月7日 (火) 00:50 (UTC)まで)

• 月間新記事賞
  • 法隆寺再建非再建論争
  • 南満洲鉄道ジテ1型気動車
  • 患者安全
  • シャーロット・パーキンズ・ギルマン
  • 佐渡電灯
  • 末期の眼
  • 猿渡瞳

日本語版ウィキボヤージュ

• ニュース
  • 職員室さんが管理者に信任されました。
• おすすめの旅行先 4-6月
  • プロヴァンス＝アルプ＝コート・ダジュール地方が選考中(まで)

5月のイベント情報

• 5/26 ウィキペディアタウン天酒まつり in 久美浜(詳細)

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Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [5]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [6]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [7]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [8]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [9]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [10]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [11]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [12]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [13]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• 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). [15][16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [17][18]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [19]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [20]

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). [21][22]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [23]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [24]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:44, 6 May 2024 (UTC)