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Tech News: 2024-15
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
Web browsers can use tools called
extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called
Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new
Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Readers using the
Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar).
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New accounts and logged-out users will get the
visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
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I am so sorry, I forgot. I tried to click on X, so I can explain, but it was too late. The reason why is because there is too much infobox ideologies, so I have to make it simple. Can you put back my edit as we want it simple so thar we don't get the readers confused?  How many warning do I got before it turns to block?
174.135.36.220 (
talk) 04:49, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hello? I left a message about the edit as I was trying to keep the ideologies on template simple, once you give my edits back, is it possible to reserve the warning as I was about to explain, but I click apply.  I made some edits on Christian Democratic People's Party, expect this time I added why I removed some, so I make sure it is not vandalism.
174.135.36.220 (
talk) 08:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)reply
You've already provided your reasons why, so you shouldn't have a problem with not explaining your edits. I'm afraid I'm usually away from Wikipedia during the day, so apologies for the late reply.
lavender|(formerly
HMSSolent)|
lambast 00:10, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you! I understand, I see how you are busy sometimes, so I understand. Can you revert my edit warnings and put back my edits on Alliance for the Union of Romanians? please?
174.135.36.220 (
talk) 00:22, 15 April 2024 (UTC)reply
How often do you replied, since I have asked a request? 
174.135.36.220 (
talk) 01:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Thought you would have noticed that I restored your edit
here.
lavender|(formerly
HMSSolent)|
lambast 05:12, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I haven’t noticed yet. Do I still have my warning edit or is it removed?
174.135.36.220 (
talk) 06:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I think someone else has since reverted your edits - see
here. You might want to take it up with them instead.
lavender|(formerly
HMSSolent)|
lambast 21:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
What I meant to point out is that someone else has since reverted it again - that link contains that other editor reverting your changes that I restored earlier.
lavender|(formerly
HMSSolent)|
lambast 00:21, 23 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (
calendar).
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Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in
footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
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A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to
abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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Future changes
Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle
temporary accounts.
Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including
Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
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).
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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.
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