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Tech News: 2024-09
Latest tech news from de Wikimedia technical community. Please make you flow oda users about dese changes. No be all changes go affect you. Translations be available.
Recent changes
- De mobile visual editor be now de default editor give users wey never edit before, for small group of wikis. Research dey show say users wey dey use dis editor be slightly more successful dem dey publish de edits dem start, den slightly less successful dem dey publish non-reverted edits. Users wey define de wikitext editor as dema default for desktop top go get de wikitext editor for mobile top for dema first edit for mobile top as well. [1]
De mw.config value wgGlobalGroupsnow dey contain groups per wey be active insyd de wiki. Scripts no longer go dey check weda de group be active for de wiki top via API request. Code example of de above be:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [2]
Changes later dis week
De new version of MediaWiki go be for test wikis den MediaWiki.org top from 27 February. E go be for non-Wikipedia wikis top den sam Wikipedias from 28 February. E go be for all wikis top from 29 February (calendar). [3][4]
Future changes
- De right to change edit tags (
changetags) go be removed from users insyd Wikimedia sites, dey keep am by default give admins den bots per. Your community fi biz make dem retain de old configuration for your wiki top before dis change go happen. Please make you indicate insyd dis ticket make dem keep am give your community before de end of March 2024.
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