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Tech News: 2022-19[edit]
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
- You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [1]
Problems
- Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [2]
- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [3]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [4]
- Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
- The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.
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15:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-20[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [5]
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).
Future changes
- You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [6]
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18:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Re:SP[edit]
Oh, thanks! My bad, it seemed like a normal request by a user with no issues. They clearly admits the SP in the new request! The account has been unused for some time, so I don't know if it's better if the account stays that way, so it can't be used and registered again or if it’s better to revert the vanish and to ask for a block. What do you advise? Superpes15 (talk) 05:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Superpes15: IMHO block is enough, I don't see the need to revert the rename. -- CptViraj (talk) 05:40, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Agree, just add all their SP in the blacklist, so they cannot ask for a rename anymore! Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)