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Tech News: 2024-17[edit]

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Changes later this week

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

Future changes

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 April 2024[edit]

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Draft: List of siblings of presidents of the United States[edit]

I and JimmyCarterLover1 have finished a large chunk of this draft (I am aware that you know of said draft because you were responsible for converting the initial page into one). However, it would be suitable to have help from other editors considering the collaborative nature of Wikipedia. I also anticipate work on this draft stalling without the support of more people as one person cannot simply draft an entire article by themselves (and, not to discount the contributions of JimmyCarterLover1, I feel as if this draft has turned into my personal project because I have been responsible for so much of it). In short: help is needed, and I encourage you to help us with this. ApplePieGuy95 (talk) 00:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The subject of this list isn't a particular interest of mine, but looking at the draft, I'd suggest the following:
  1. Write up a two-three sentence lead paragraph for the list. Find and add enough references that talk about the list as a whole and not just individual people in the list. Read and make sure that the list meets WP:NLIST. Do this before improving other aspects of the draft.
  2. Merge the individual tables for each president into one large table.
  3. Many of the entries in the "Notes" cell can be made into notes that will be shown at the end of the list. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:59, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-18[edit]

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Recent changes

Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

Problems

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [15][16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from ViennaMoka (09:54, 1 May 2024)[edit]

Hello there! How do I publish edits to an ECP page on behalf of the concerned person? (Craig Mokhiber) Thank you. --ViennaMoka (talk) 09:54, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ViennaMoka: I assume you mean that someone has asked you to do a few changes to an edit-confirmed protected page. The problem is that you haven't got that right (yet). You can use Template:Edit extended-protected to post a message to the talk page of the relevant article. Hope this helps. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-19[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

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [21][22]
  • When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [23]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Turing Award[edit]

Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, Turing Award, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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