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اخبار فناوری: 2024-12
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- اکنون که کاربران محل قرارگیری تغییردهندهٔ زبان را یاد گرفتهاند، اعلان «پیوندهای زبانی در بالای صفحه قرار دارند» که در منوی اصلی پوستهٔ وکتور ۲۰۲۲ ظاهر میشود، اکنون حذف شده است. [۱]
- ویژگی اطلاعات آیپی دادههایی از Spur، که یک پایگاه دادهٔ نشانیهای آیپی است را نمایش میدهد. پیش از این، MaxMind تنها منبع دادهٔ این ویژگی بود. اکنون اطلاعات آیپی برای گشتزنان کاربردیتر است. [۲]
- پس از فرایند نهایی مهاجرت از موتور شبکه به کوبرنتس، خدمات موتور شبکهٔ تولفورج خاموش شده است. [۳][۴][۵]
- جوامع اکنون میتوانند دلایل پیشفرض احیای صفحهها را با ایجاد MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown تنظیم کنند. [۶]
مشکلات
- لغزندهٔ نسخه یک رابط کاربری برای جستجوی تعاملی در تاریخچهٔ صفحهها است. کاربران زبانهای راست به چپ گزارش کردهاند که لغزندهٔ نسخه نسبت به کلیک موشواره واکنش اشتباه از خود نشان میدهد. این مشکل اکنون باید برطرف شده باشد. [۷]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۱۹ مارس فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۲۰ مارس فعال خواهد شد و از ۲۱ مارس روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۸][۹]
- تمامی ویکیها در ۲۰ مارس برای چند دقیقه تنها قابل خواندن خواهند بود. این رویداد برای ساعت ۱۴:۰۰ (UTC) برنامهریزی شده است. [۱۰][۱۱]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۸ مارس ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۱۷:۳۹ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-13
[ویرایش]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
- An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [۱۲][۱۳]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۵ مارس ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۱۸:۵۶ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-14
[ویرایش]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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [۱۴]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [۱۵][۱۶]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲ آوریل ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۳:۳۵ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-15
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- مرورگرهای وب میتوانند از ابزارهایی که افزونه نام دارند، استفاده کنند. اکنون افزونهای با نام نیازمند منبع در دسترس است که میتوانید برای بررسی این که محتوای آنلاین توسط یکی از مقالههای ویکیپدیا پشتیبانی میشود یا خیر، از آن استفاده کنید. این یک آزمایش کوچک است تا ببینیم آیا میتوان از ویکیپدیا به این نحو استفاده کرد یا خیر. از آنجا که این یک آزمایش کوچک است، تنها به زبان انگلیسی در مرورگر کروم قابل استفاده است.
- ویژگی جدید بازیابی ویرایش به تمام ویکیها اضافه شده است و بهعنوان یک ترجیح کاربری در دسترس است. هرگاه آن را فعال کنید، ویرایشهای در دست انجام شما در مرورگر شما ذخیره میشوند و اگر بهصورت ناخواسته یک پنجرهٔ ویرایش را ببندید یا مرورگر یا رایانهٔ شما از کار بیافتد، از شما پرسیده میشود که میخواهید متن منتشرنشده را بازیابی کنید یا خیر. لطفاً بازخوردهای خود را در صفحهٔ بحث پروژه اعلام کنید. این ویژگی، خواستهٔ شمارهٔ ۸ در نظرسنجی خواستههای اجتماع ۲۰۲۳ بوده است.
- نتایج اولیهٔ آزمایش بررسی ویرایش اکنون منتشر شده است. بررسی ویرایش اکنون بهعنوان یک ویژگی پیشفرض در ویکیهایی که آن را آزمودهاند فعال شده است. اگر میخواهید ویکی شما در مرحلهٔ بعدی فعالسازی بررسی ویرایش شرکت داشته باشد، ما را در جریان بگذارید. [۱۷][۱۸]
- مخاطبانی که از پوستهٔ مینروا در تلفن همراه استفاده میکنند متوجه خواهند شد که بهبودهایی در ارتفاع سطر در سرتاسر تنظیمات تایپوگرافی اعمال شده است. [۱۹]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۹ آوریل فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۱۰ آوریل فعال خواهد شد و از ۱۱ آوریل روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۲۰][۲۱]
- حسابهای کاربری جدید و کاربرانی که از سامانه خارج شدهاند ویرایشگر دیداری را بهعنوان ویرایشگر پیشفرض در تلفن همراه در اختیار خواهند داشت. این فعالسازی در تمامی ویکیها بهجز ویکیپدیای انگلیسی انجام شده است. [۲۲]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۸ آوریل ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۳۷ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-16
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
مشکلات
- بین ۲ آوریل و ۸ آوریل، در ویکیهایی که از نسخههای پرچمدار استفاده میکنند، برچسب «برگرداندهشده» بر ویرایشهای خنثیشده اعمال نشد. علاوه برا این، انتقالها، محافظتها و درونریزیها بهطور خودکار بازبینی نشدند. این مشکل اکنون برطرف شده است. [۲۳][۲۴]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۱۶ آوریل فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۱۷ آوریل فعال خواهد شد و از ۱۸ آوریل روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۲۵][۲۶]
- کلیدهای مرتبسازی پیشفرض رده اکنون بر ردههایی که بهواسطهٔ الگوهای قرار گرفته در پانویسها افزوده میشوند، اثر خواهند گذاشت. پیش از این پانویسها از عنوان صفحه بهعنوان کلید مرتبسازی استفاده میکردند؛ حتی اگر کلید مرتبسازی پیشفرض متفاوتی تعریف شده بود (کلیدهای مرتبسازی اختصاصی ردهها از پیش کار میکردند). [۲۷]
- یک متغیر جدید
page_last_edit_age
به پالایههای ویرایش افزوده خواهد شد. این متغیر نشان میدهد که چند ثانیه از آخرین ویرایش انجام شده در یک صفحه گذشته است. [۲۸]
تغییرات آینده
- از توسعهدهندگان داوطلب درخواست میشود که کدهای ابزارها و ویژگیهای خود را طوری به روز کنند که با حسابهای موقت سازگار باشند. بیشتر بدانید.
- دو بخش از پایگاه داده از پایگاههای دادهٔ عینی (از جمله کوآری) حذف خواهند شد. این تغییر فقط بر جدولهای
abuse_filter
وabuse_filter_history
اثر خواهد گذاشت. برخی پرسمانها ممکن است نیازمند بهروزرسانی باشند. [۲۹]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۵ آوریل ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۲۸ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-17
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- از این هفته، تازهواردانی که در ویکیپدیا ویرایش میکنند تشویق خواهند شد که وظایف ساختارمند را امتحان کنند. وظایف ساختارمند به منظور بهبود روند فعالسازی و جذب تازهواردان نماش داده شده است. [۳۰]
- اکنون میتوانید در پنجمین جایزهٔ جذابترین ابزار، ابزار مورد علاقهٔ خود را نامزد کنید. فرایند نامزدی تا ۱۰ مه برقرار خواهد بود.
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۲۳ آوریل فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۲۴ آوریل فعال خواهد شد و از ۲۵ آوریل روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۳۱][۳۲]
تغییرات آینده
- این آخرین هشدار مبنی بر این است که تا پایان مهٔ ۲۰۲۴ پوستهٔ وکتور ۲۰۲۲ دیگر دارای اسکریپتها و سبکهای کاربری مشترک با وکتور قدیمی نخواهد بود. برای اسکریپتهای کاربری که میخواهید در وکتور ۲۰۲۲ به استفاده از آنها ادامه دهید، محتوای ویژه:صفحهٔ من/vector.js را در ویژه:صفحهٔ من/vector-2022.js کپی کنید. جزئیات فنی بیشتر در دسترس است. مدیران رابط کاربری که پیشبینی میکنند این موضوع منجر به طرح پرسشها و درخواستهای فنی زیادی شود میتوانند همانطور که در ویکیپدیای فرانسوی انجام شده، پیامی انبوه به جامعهٔ خود ارسال کنند. [۳۳]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۲ آوریل ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۰:۲۷ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-18
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- ظاهر صفحههای بحث در این ویکیها تغییر کرده است: ویکیپدیای آذربایجانی، ویکیپدیای بنگالی، ویکیپدیای آلمانی، ویکیپدیای فارسی، ویکیپدیای عبری، ویکیپدیای هندی، ویکیپدیای اندونزی، ویکیپدیای کرهای، ویکیپدیای هلندی، ویکیپدیای پرتغالی، ویکیپدیای رومانیایی، ویکیپدیای تایلندی، ویکیپدیای ترکی، ویکیپدیای اوکراینی، ویکیپدیای ویتنامی. این ویکیها در یک آزمایش شرکت داشتند؛ آزمایشی که طی آن ۵۰٪ از کاربران طراحی جدید را دریافت کردند. از آنجا که نتایج این آزمایش مثبت بوده است، این طراحی جدید بهطور پیشفرض در این ویکیها فعال خواهد شد. امکان غیر فعال کردن این تغییرات در ترجیحات کاربری («نمایش فعالیت در گفتگو») وجود دارد. فعالسازی تغییرات در هفتههای آینده در تمام ویکیها انجام خواهد شد. [۳۴]
- هفت ویکی جدید ایجاد شده است:
- اکنون در ویکیترجمه میتوانید گروهها/پروژههای پیامی را پیگیری کنید. در ابتدا، این ویژگی شما را از افزودن یا حذف پیامها در این گروهها آگاه خواهد کرد. [۴۲]
- حالت تاریک اکنون در تمام ویکیها، در نمای وب موبایل و برای کاربرانی که به سامانه وارد شدهاند و از حالت پیشرفته استفاده میکنند، در دسترس است. این یک نسخهٔ زودهنگام از این ویژگی است. از ویرایشگران فنی دعوت میشود که مشکلات دسترسیپذیری در ویکیها را بررسی کنند. رهنمودهای پرجزئیاتتر را ببینید.
مشکلات
- نقشههای نقشهنگار میتوانند با استفاده از
mapstyle="osm"
از یک سبک دیداری جایگزین بدون برچسب استفاده کنند. این قابلیت در حالت پیشنمایش کار نمیکرد، و این ذهنیت را ایجاد میکرد که از آن پشتیبانی نمیشود. این مشکل اکنون برطرف شده است. [۴۳]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۳۰ آوریل فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۱ مهٔ فعال خواهد شد و از ۲ مهٔ روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۴۴][۴۵]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۳۰ آوریل ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۳:۳۳ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-19
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- نمای ظاهری صفحههای بحث در تمام ویکیها بهجز ویکیانبار، ویکیداده و بیشتر ویکیپدیاها (که برخی از آنها از پیش از تغییر در طراحی را دریافت کردهاند) تغییر کرده است. میتوانید جزئیات این تغییر را در دیف بخوانید. امکان غیرفعالسازی این تغییرات در ترجیحات کاربری («نمایش فعالیت در گفتگو») وجود دارد. این فعالسازی در هفتههای آینده در ویکیهای باقیمانده اتفاق خواهد افتاد. [۴۶][۴۷]
- با رونمایی از
SiteAdminHelper
، اکنون مدیران رابط کاربری در نمای موبایل کنترل بیشتری بر روی سبکبندی بخشهای مقالهها خواهند داشت. اطلاعات بیشتر در خصوص چگونگی غیرفعالسازی سبکها را میتوانید در صفحهٔ افزونه بیابید. [۴۸] - بنگاه ویکیمدیا بدنهٔ مقالهها را در فرمت جیسان و یک توصیف مختصر گزیدهشده را به جعبهٔ اطلاعات تجزیهشدهٔ موجود اضافه کرده است. این افزونه برای رابط کاربردی برنامهنویسی (API) از طریق سرویس ابری ویکیمدیا نیز در دسترس است. [۴۹]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۷ مهٔ فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۸ مهٔ فعال خواهد شد و از ۹ مهٔ روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۵۰][۵۱]
- وقتی به صفحه ویژه:سیاههها نگاه میکنید، نخستین نما دارای برچسب «تمام سیاهههای عمومی» است، اما فقط برخی از سوابق را نشان میدهد. این برچسب اکنون دارای عنوان «سیاهههای عمومی اصلی». [۵۲]
تغییرات آینده
- یک سرویس جدید برای جایگزنی افزونه:نمودار ساخته خواهد شد. جزئیات این افزونه را میتوانید در آخرین بهروزرسانی بیابید.
- از ۲۱ مه، ویکیپدیای انگلیسی و ویکیپدیای آلمانی امکان فعالسازی «افزودن پیوند» را خواهند داشت. این تغییر بخشی از فعالسازی پیشروندهٔ این ابزار در تمام ویکیها است. این جوامع میتوانند این ویژگی را بهصورت بومی فعال و پیکربندی کنند. [۵۳]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۶ مهٔ ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۱۶:۴۴ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-20
[ویرایش]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
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [۵۴] - If you use the user-preference "پیشنمایش بدون بارگیری دوبارهٔ صفحه", then the template-page feature "پیشنمایش صفحه با این الگو" will now also work without reloading the page. [۵۵]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=
attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [۵۶] - The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [۵۷]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [۵۸][۵۹]
- The ویژه:جستجو results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [۶۰]
Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [۶۱]
- Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
andpl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
andlt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
withJOIN linktarget
andpl_
withlt_
in theON
statement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [۶۲][۶۳]
- Replace
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۳ مهٔ ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۵۸ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-21
[ویرایش]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
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [۶۴]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [۶۵][۶۶]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [۶۷][۶۸]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۰ مهٔ ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۰۴ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-22
[ویرایش]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
- Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
- In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
- Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes:
.collapsible
,.multicol
,.reflist
,.coordinates
,.topicon
. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [۶۹][۷۰]
- When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [۷۱]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۸ مهٔ ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۰:۱۵ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-23
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- اکنون این امکان برای مدیران محلی وجود دارد که بدون استفاده از جاوااسکریپت، پیوندهای جدید را به پایین منوی ابزارهای وبگاه اضافه کنند. مستندات در دسترس است. [۷۲]
- نام پیام برای توصیف ردهٔ ردیابی ویکیهیرو از «
MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category
» به «MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category
» تغییر یافته است. [۷۳] - یک ویکی جدید ایجاد شده است: یک ویکیپدیا به زبان Kadazandusun (
w:dtp:
) [۷۴]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۴ ژوئن فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۵ ژوئن فعال خواهد شد و از ۶ ژوئن روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۷۵][۷۶]
تغییرات آینده
- در هفتهٔ پیش رو، در ویکیهایی که پوستهٔ وکتور ۲۰۲۲ در آنها پوسته پیشفرض است، کاربران رایانه قادر خواهند بود تا اندازهٔ قلم خود را انتخاب کنند. اندازهٔ پیشفرض قلم نیز برای آنان افزایش خواهد یافت. این کار بهمنظور تسهیل خوانده شدن پروژههای ویکیمدیا انجام شده است. بیشتر بدانید.
اخبار فناوری توسط نویسندگان اخبار فناوری آماده شده و توسط ربات ارسال شده است • مشارکت • ترجمه • راهنمایی • ارسال بازخورد • اشتراک یا لغو اشتراک.
MediaWiki message delivery ۳ ژوئن ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۲:۳۴ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-24
[ویرایش]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
- The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [۷۷]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
- The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-text
class, Parsoid now also adds thereference-text
class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [۷۸]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [۷۹]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [۸۰][۸۱]
- The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [۸۲] - On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>
system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [۸۳]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۰ ژوئن ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۰:۲۰ (UTC)
اخبار فناوری: 2024-25
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
تغییرات اخیر
- افرادی که در ویرایشگر دیداری اقدام به افزودن پیوند بیرونی میکنند، در صورتی که برای پیوند دادن به دامنهای که طبق تصمیم اجتماع پروژه مسدود شده است، تلاش کنند، اکنون بلافاصله بازخوردی دریافت خواهند کرد. برای آگاهی از جزئیات بیشتر، لطفاً بررسی ویرایش را ببینید. [۸۴]
- افزونهٔ جدید پیکربندی اجتماع در ویکیپدیای آزمایشی در دسترس است. این افزونه امکان سفارشیسازی ویژگیهای خاص برای مطابقت با نیازهای بومی جوامع را به کاربران آن جوامع میدهد. در حال حاضر، تنها ویژگیهای توسعه قابلیت پیکربندی دارند، اما این افزونه در آینده از سایر موارد کاربرد پیکربندی اجتماع پشتیبانی خواهد کرد. [۸۵][۸۶]
- ویژگی آزمایشی حالت تاریک اکنون در صفحههای رده و راهنما، و نیز در صفحههای ویژهٔ بیشتر در دسترس است. ممکن است مشکلاتی در زمینهٔ تضاد رنگ وجود داشته باشد. لطفاً اشکالات آن را در صفحهٔ بحث پروژه گزارش کنید. [۸۷]
مشکلات
- ابزارهای خدمات ابری در هفتهٔ گذشته برای ۲۵ دقیقه در دسترس نبودند. این اشکال بهدلیل یک خرابی در سیمکشی سختافزار در مرکز داده بروز کرد. [۸۸]
- در هفتهٔ گذشته، بهروزرسانیهایی در سبکبندی پوستهٔ وکتور ۲۰۲۲ انجام شدند. این بهروزرسانی به بروز مشکلات پیشبینینشدهای در الگوها، سرنویسها و تصاویر منجر شد. تغییرات در الگوها و سرنویسها واگردانی شدند. بیشتر مشکلات در تصاویر نیز برطرف شدند. اگر همچنان مشکلی مشاهده کردید، در اینجا گزارش کنید. [۸۹]
تغییرات این هفته
- یک نسخهٔ جدید از مدیاویکی روی ویکیهای تست و MediaWiki.org از تاریخ ۱۸ ژوئن فعال خواهد شد. این نسخه بر روی وبگاههای غیر ویکیپدیا و بعضی از ویکیپدیاها در تاریخ ۱۹ ژوئن فعال خواهد شد و از ۲۰ ژوئن روی همهٔ ویکیها خواهد رفت (تقویم). [۹۰][۹۱]
- بررسی ویرایش ارجاع از ۱۸ ژوئن در مجموعهٔ جدیدی از ویکیپدیاها فعال خواهد شد. این ویژگی ایجاد شده است تا از کاربرانی که مطالب جدیدی به مقالهها اضافه میکنند و برای آنها منبعی ارائه نمیدهند، دعوت کند که یادکردی به مطالب خود بیافزایند و از همین طریق کمک حال کاربران تازهوارد و کاربران گشتزن باشد. در طول یک آزمایش انجامشده در ۱۱ ویکی، با نمایش بررسی ارجاع به افراد، تعداد ارجاعات افزودهشده بیش از دو برابر افزایش یافت. بررسی ارجاع دارای قابلیت پیکربندی توسط اجتماع است. [۹۲]
- در روز سهشنبه از ساعت ۱۰:۰۰ تا ساعت ۱۲:۰۰ (UTC)، میلینگ لیستها بهمنظور مهاجرت به یک سرور جدید و ارتقاء نرمافزار آن، برای حدود دو ساعت در دسترس نخواهند بود. [۹۳]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۷ ژوئن ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۴۸ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-26
[ویرایش]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
- Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [۹۴]
- The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [۹۵]
Problems
- You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [۹۶]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [۹۷][۹۸]
- Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [۹۹]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۴ ژوئن ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۲:۳۲ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-27
[ویرایش]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
- Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [۱۰۰]
- Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [۱۰۱]
- If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [۱۰۲][۱۰۳]
- Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [۱۰۴]
- Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
- One new wiki has been created: a ویکیپدیا in Mandailing (
w:btm:
) [۱۰۵]
Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [۱۰۶]
Future changes
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱ ژوئیهٔ ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۵۸ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-28
[ویرایش]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
- At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
- The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
- Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
- Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.
Problems
- A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.
Future changes
- The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
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Tech News: 2024-29
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News survey
- Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
- The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
- Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
- Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.
Changes later this week
- This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.
Future changes
- Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [۱۰۷]
- Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.
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Tech News: 2024-30
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature News
- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
- Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [۱۰۸]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [۱۰۹]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
- Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [۱۱۰]
Project Updates
- Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Learn more
- Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
- How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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Tech News: 2024-31
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
- One new wiki has been created: a ویکیسفر in Czech (
voy:cs:
) [۱۱۱]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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Tech News: 2024-32
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}
and{{#bcp47}}
. These will reduce the need forTemplate:Dir
andTemplate:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [۱۱۲][۱۱۳] - Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
- The new parser is being rolled out on ویکیسفر wikis over the next few months. The ویکیسفر انگلیسی and ویکیسفر عبری were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.
Learn more
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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Tech News: 2024-33
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [۱۱۴]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a ویکیپدیا in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:
) [۱۱۵]
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Tech News: 2024-34
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [۱۱۶]
- Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
property ofmw.title objects
. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [۱۱۷][۱۱۸]
Bugs status
- Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388. - Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۰ اوت ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۰:۵۳ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-35
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
- Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [۱۱۹]
Bugs status
- Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
- Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
- If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
- 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:
- Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
- Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.
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اخبار فناوری: 2024-36
[ویرایش]جدیدترین اخبار فناوری از جامعهٔ فنی ویکیمدیا. لطفاً کاربران دیگر را هم از این تغییرات آگاه کنید. همهٔ تغییرات روی شما اثر نخواهند گذاشت. ترجمههای بیشتر در دسترس است.
نکات هفتگی
- ویرایشگران و توسعهدهندگان داوطلب علاقهمند به مصورسازی داده اکنون میتوانند نرمافزار جدید برای نمودارها را آزمایش کنند. نسخهٔ اولیهٔ آن در ویکیانبار آزمایشی و ویکیپدیای آزمایشی در دسترس است. این یک نقطهٔ عطف مهم پیش از در دسترس قرار دادن نمودارها در ویکیهای معمول است. میتوانید در مورد این بهروزرسانی پروژه بیشتر بخوانید و در آزمودن نمودارها کمک کنید.
اخبار ویژگیها
- ویرایشگرانی که از صفحهٔ ویژه:الگوهای استفاده نشده استفاده میکنند اکنون میتوانند صفحههایی را که انتظار میرود بهطور دائم در آنجا بمانند، مانند صفحههای تمرین، صفحههای آزمایشی الگوها، و الگوهایی که همیشه جانشانی میشوند، پالایش کنند. ویرایشگران میتوانند بهمنظور نهفتن یک الگو از این فهرست، واژهٔ جادویی جدید
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__
را به آن الگو اضافه کنند. تشکر از Sophivorus و DannyS712 برای این بهبودها. [۱۲۰] - اکنون به ویرایشگرانی که از ابزار مبحث جدید در صفحههای بحث استفاده میکنند یادآوری خواهد شد که عنوان بخش را وارد کنند، که انتظار میرود به کاهش تعداد تازهواردانی که بخشهای بدون عنوان ایجاد میکنند، کمک کند. میتوانید در مورد این موارد و ۲۸ وظیفهٔ ثبتشده از سوی جامعه که در هفتهٔ گذشته برطرف شدهاند بیشتر بخوانید.
- در هفتهٔ گذشته، برخی ابزارهای تولفورج گاه به گاه با مشکلات اتصال به شبکه مواجه شدند. دلیل این مشکل همچنان در دست بررسی است، اما این مشکلات فعلاً برطرف شدهاند. [۱۲۱]
- مدیران ترجمه در ویکیهای چندزبانه، اکنون هنگام ویرایش چندین واحد ترجمه میتوانند به آسانی تغییرات نیازمند بهروزرسانی در ترجمه را علامتگذاری کنند. این کار از طریق منوی پایینروندهٔ جدید امکانپذیر است.
بهروزرسانیهای پروژه
- پیشنویسی از متن یک سیاست پیرامون استفاده از API ویکیمدیا در فراویکی منتشر شده است. این متن پیشنویس بازتابدهندهٔ تغییری در سیاست پیرامون APIها نیست و در عوض، اقدامی است برای کدگذاری قوانین کنون API. تا ۱۳ سپتامبر یا تا پیش از جمعبندی آن بحثها، از نظرات، پرسشها و پیشنهادها در صفحهٔ بحث بهروزرسانی پیشنهادی استقبال میشود.
بیشتر بدانید
- برای کسب اطلاعات بیشتر پیرامون فناوری موجود در پس پروژههای ویکیمدیا، میتوانید نشستهای مسیر فناوری در ویکیمانیای ۲۰۲۴ را در ویکیانبار تماشا کنید. در این هفته، موارد زیر را ببینید:
- نمودارها، جانشینی برای گرافها - ابزاری امن و توسعهپذیر برای مصورسازی داده (۲۵ دقیقه) - پیرامون پروژهٔ نمودارها که بالاتر به آن اشاره شد.
- وضعیت فناوری زبانی و حضور در ویکیمدیا (۹۰ دقیقه) - پیرامون برخی از ابزارهای زبانی پشتیبان وبگاههای ویکیمدیا، مانند ترجمه بخش/محتوا، MinT و LanguageConverter؛ بهعلاوهٔ وضعیت کنونی و آیندهٔ زبانهای موجود. [۱۲۲]
اخبار فناوری توسط نویسندگان اخبار فناوری آماده شده و توسط ربات ارسال شده است • مشارکت • ترجمه • راهنمایی • ارسال بازخورد • اشتراک یا لغو اشتراک.
MediaWiki message delivery ۳ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۱:۰۶ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-37
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [۱۲۳][۱۲۴]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()
andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)
will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [۱۲۵]
Project updates
- 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. [۱۲۶]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOS
namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:
(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos
). [۱۲۷]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۹ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۱۸:۵۲ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-38
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
- Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
- The new automated ویژه:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [۱۲۸]
- References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [۱۲۹]
- It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [۱۳۰]
- Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and ۲۰ other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-box
need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-message
group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [۱۳۱]
Technical project updates
- Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [۱۳۲]
Tech in depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and 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:
- Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۷ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۰:۰۲ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-39
[ویرایش]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
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
- The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
- It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within
<syntaxhighlight>
tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}}
are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [۱۳۳] - Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [۱۳۴][۱۳۵]
- View all ۲۵ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
- The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۳ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۳۶ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-40
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsource
to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [۱۳۶] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [۱۳۷]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all ۲۲ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [۱۳۸]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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MediaWiki message delivery ۳۰ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۲:۱۹ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-41
[ویرایش]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
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [۱۳۹]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [۱۴۰]
- View all ۱۲ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>
code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1
attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [۱۴۱] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [۱۴۲]
- Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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MediaWiki message delivery ۷ اکتبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۳:۴۲ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-42
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [۱۴۸][۱۴۹]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [۱۵۰]
- View all ۲۰ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [۱۵۱]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [۱۵۲]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>
element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [۱۵۳]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۴ اکتبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۱:۲۰ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-43
[ویرایش]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
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all ۳۳ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [۱۵۴][۱۵۵][۱۵۶][۱۵۷][۱۵۸]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}
parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}
will show as "12 November 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}
could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef
(or#timefl
for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [۱۵۹][۱۶۰] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using{{int:lang}}
. [۱۶۱] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [۱۶۲]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۱ اکتبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۰:۵۲ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-44
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
- View all ۳۲ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [۱۶۳]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnStep
totrue
to fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBack
to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [۱۶۴] - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [۱۶۵]
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MediaWiki message delivery ۲۸ اکتبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۰:۵۵ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-45
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [۱۶۶]
- Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
- The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [۱۶۷]
- View all ۳۲ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
- XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [۱۶۸]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۴ نوامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۲۰:۴۹ (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-46
[ویرایش]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [۱۶۹]
- View all ۲۹ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [۱۷۰]
Updates for technical contributors
- In
1.44.0-wmf-2
, the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatements
changed to behave likegetBestStatements
. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [۱۷۱] - Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [۱۷۲]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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MediaWiki message delivery ۱۲ نوامبر ۲۰۲۴، ساعت ۰۰:۰۶ (UTC)