# விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி (தொழினுட்பம்)/தொகுப்பு12

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## Tech News: 2021-02

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed.
- You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry.
- Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  - The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later.
  - Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works.
  - When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
- There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback.
- Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the <code>watchlist</code> to <code>watch</code> will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database.
- Scribunto's file metadata now includes length.
- CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like :w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50.
- There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W02"/> 15:42, 11 சனவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-03

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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.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on at 07:00 (UTC).
- MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W03"/> 16:09, 18 சனவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-04

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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.  

**Problems**  
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on at 09:00 (UTC).

**Changes later this week**  
- Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W04"/> 18:30, 25 சனவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-05

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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.  

**Problems**  
- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
- Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like <code>1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55</code> as well as the <code>1.2.3.4/27</code> syntax for IP ranges.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more.
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be <code>185.15.56.1</code>. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W05"/> 22:38, 1 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## நுட்பத் தேவைகள் பட்டியல்

எதிர்வரும் ஒரு நிரலாக்கப் போட்டியில் விக்கிநுட்பத் தேவைகளையும் அதன் போட்டிக்குப் பரிந்துரைக்க உள்ளேன். நீங்கள் எதிர்கொண்ட சிக்கல்கள் அல்லது எதிர்பார்க்கும் நுட்பத் தேவைகளை இங்கே பட்டியலிடலாம். இந்தத் தொகுப்பு எப்போதும் நமக்கும் உதவும். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 14:10, 5 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)  
:மாணவர்களுக்கு எளிதாகவும் (நாம் வழிகாட்டக்கூடியதாகவும்), நமக்குத் தொலைநோக்கில் பயனுள்ளதாகவும் ஐந்து தேவைகளைப் பரிந்துரைத்துள்ளேன். வேறு தேவைகளையும் பட்டியலிடலாம். போட்டியில் மாணவர்களுக்கு வழிகாட்டியாக இருக்க ஆர்வமுள்ளவர்கள் அறியத்தரலாம்.  
- விக்கித்திட்டங்களில் பயனர் நிரல்வழியாக மிதக்கும் தட்டச்சுப் பலகை(virtual keyboard) உருவாக்கல்
- கூகிள் டிரெண்ட்ஸ் வழியாக விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் தேவைப்படும் கட்டுரையைப் பரிந்துரைத்தல்
- விக்கிப்பீடியா தளத்திற்குப் புதுமையான இடைமுகப் பக்கத்தைப் பயனர் நிரல் வழியாக உருவாக்குதல்
- விக்கிமூல அகராதிகளிலிருந்து விக்சனரியில் புதிய சொற்களை ஏற்றல்.
- விக்கித்தரவின் அடிப்படையில் தமிழில் chatbot உருவாக்குதல். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 21:05, 7 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)
:: கோவை அரசினர் தொழில்நுட்பக் கல்லூரி மற்றும் உத்தமம் இணைந்து இந்தத் தமிழ் நிரலாக்கப் போட்டியை நடத்துகிறார்கள். விக்கித்திட்டங்கள் சார்ந்த சிக்கல் கூறுகளும் உள்ளன. மாணவர்களுக்கு வழிகாட்டி/ஆலோசகர்களாக விக்கிசார்ந்த தலைப்புகளில் உதவ ஆர்வமுள்ளவர்கள் அறியத்தரலாம். இணையத்தளம்: https://tmfa-gct.com/Niralkalam -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 15:50, 11 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-06

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app.

**Changes later this week**  
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones.
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W06"/> 17:41, 8 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-07

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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.  

**Problems**  
- There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned.
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W07"/> 17:55, 15 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)  

## Technical maintenance planed‬

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**A maintenance operation will be performed tomorrow morning UTC time (Wednesday 17th at 07:00 AM UTC).**  

It will impact all wikis and is supposed to last up to one minute.  

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.  

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.  

Thank you, SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:45, 16 பெப்ரவரி 2021 (UTC)  
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## Tech News: 2021-08

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images.
- The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU.

**Problems**  
- Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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## Tech News: 2021-09

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
- A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

**Problems**  
- There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits.
- Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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19:07, 1 மார்ச் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-10

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
- Flagged revisions now give admins the review .
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article.

**Problems**  
- Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions.

**Future changes**  
- There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown.
- New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W10"/> 17:51, 8 மார்ச் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-11

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
- Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more.

**Problems**  
- Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems.
- You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
- You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database <code>JOINS</code> will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W11"/> 23:22, 15 மார்ச் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-12

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
- The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

**Problems**  
- You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis.

**Future changes**  
- Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain.
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from <code dir=ltr>wg*</code> to <code dir=ltr>mw.config</code>. <code dir=ltr>wg*</code> will soon no longer work.

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</div></div> <section end="technews-2021-W12"/> 16:52, 22 மார்ச் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-13

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.
- IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to <code>irc.wikimedia.org</code> and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams.

**Problems**  
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem.
- Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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17:30, 29 மார்ச் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-14

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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 can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first.

**Changes later this week**  
- The citoid API will use for example <code>2010-12-XX</code> instead of <code>2010-12</code> for dates with a month but no days. This is because <code>2010-12</code> could be confused with <code>2010-2012</code> instead of <code>December 2010</code>. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database <code>JOINS</code> will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:40, 5 ஏப்ரல் 2021 (UTC)  

## விக்கியன்பு சிக்கல்

விருப்பத்தேர்வு கொடுத்தாலும் பயனர் பக்கங்களில் விக்கியன்பு இலச்சினை தெரியவில்லை. முன்பு இருந்த விக்கியன்பு நீட்சி இப்போது இல்லை, காரணம் தெரியவில்லை. யாரேனும் கவனித்தால் அறியத்தாருங்கள். தற்போதைக்கு பபிரிகேட்டரில் வழு பதிந்துள்ளேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 11:39, 16 ஏப்ரல் 2021 (UTC)  

விக்கியன்பை பயன்படுத்தி சக பயனர்களுக்குப் பதக்கங்கள் வழங்குவதில் சிக்கல் உள்ளது. யாராவது சரிசெய்யவும்,--TNSE Mahalingam VNR (பேச்சு) 02:17, 22 ஏப்ரல் 2021 (UTC)  
:தற்போது விக்கியன்பைப் பயன்படுத்தலாம். மேலும் தகவலுக்கு இங்கே விவாதிப்போம்.-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 09:23, 14 மே 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-16

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon.
- If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces.
- Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use <code>mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles')</code> to go back to how they looked before.
- The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Future changes**  
- The user group <code>oversight</code> will be renamed <code>suppress</code>. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:48, 19 ஏப்ரல் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-17

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the values faster.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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21:24, 26 ஏப்ரல் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-18

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

**Problems**  
- The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug.
- Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.

**Changes later this week**  
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or .
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The CSS classes <code dir=ltr>.error</code>, <code dir=ltr>.warning</code> and <code dir=ltr>.success</code> do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.

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15:43, 3 மே 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-19

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:09, 10 மே 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-20

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
- Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from <code>UTF-8</code> to <code>utf8mb3</code>.
- An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.

**Changes later this week**  
- <code>MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist</code> will be renamed <code>MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist</code>. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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13:49, 17 மே 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-21

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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17:06, 24 மே 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-22

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Problems**  
- There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday.

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:05, 31 மே 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-23

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future.
- Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for <code>Bedusz</code> doesn't find <code>Będusz</code> on German Wikipedia. The character <code>ę</code> isn't used in German so many would write <code>e</code> instead. This will work better in the future in some languages.
- The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters.

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20:02, 7 சூன் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-24

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile.
- Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource.

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Future changes**  
- In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
- German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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20:26, 14 சூன் 2021 (UTC)  

## Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,  

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.  

**Event Program** - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.  

Below are some links to guide you through;  
- Program Submissions
- Session Submission Guidelines
- FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.  

**Announcements**- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.  

**Office Hour** - If you are with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.  

Best regards,  

MediaWiki message delivery (பேச்சு) 04:18, 16 சூன் 2021 (UTC)  

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team  

## Tech News: 2021-25

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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 <code>otrs-member</code> group name is now <code>vrt-permissions</code>. This could affect abuse filters.

**Problems**  
- You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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15:49, 21 சூன் 2021 (UTC)  

## Editing news 2021 #2

<div lang="ta" dir="ltr">  
<em>இதை மற்றொரு மொழியில் படிக்கவும் • இந்தப் பன்மொழிச் செய்திமடலுக்கானச் சந்தா பட்டியல்</em>  

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.</span>  

முக்கிய முடிவுகளாவன:  

- <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.</span>
- <span lang="en" dir="ltr">The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.</span>

இந்த முடிவுகள் தொகுக்கும் குழுவிற்கு இந்த கருவி பயனுள்ளதுதான் என்கிற நம்பிக்கையை தரும்  

<strong>அடுத்த கட்ட நகர்வு</strong>  

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.</span>  

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.</span>  

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">You can turn on "" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.</span>  

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (பேச்சு)  
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## Tech News: 2021-26

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page <code>Special:EditGrowthConfig</code>.
- Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add <code>.ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: ; }</code> to your common.css page.

**Problems**  
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- <code>Threshold for stub link formatting</code>, <code> size</code> and <code>auto-number headings</code> can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
- A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users.

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16:31, 28 சூன் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-27

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

**Recent changes**  
- AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. <code>Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage</code> has moved to <code>Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON</code> and <code>Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config</code>. <code>Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version</code> has moved to <code>Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON</code>. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.

**Problems**  
- InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from <code>archive.is</code> to <code>web.archive.org</code>.

**Changes later this week**  
- The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Future changes**  
- Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.

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17:33, 5 சூலை 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-29

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year.
- Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word <code></code> on pages that should not be listed on the special page.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
- The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:31, 19 சூலை 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-30

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If <code></code> is unticked you need to also untick the new preference <code></code>. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:10, 26 சூலை 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-31

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- If your wiki uses markup like <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> without the required <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>dir</code></bdi> attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as <code>span</code> or <code>code</code>. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
- Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

**Problems**  
- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly.

**Changes later this week**  
- When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
- The Beta Feature for will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding <code>?dtenable=1</code> to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:46, 2 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-32

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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.  

**Problems**  
- You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database.

**Changes later this week**  
- The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- The old CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

**Future changes**  
- The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later.
- Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future.

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16:20, 9 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-33

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.

**Problems**  
- There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed.

**Changes later this week**  
- A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden.
- Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
- In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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19:27, 16 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-34

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The Score extension (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.

**Problems**  
- You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on . This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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21:58, 23 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  

## Read-only reminder

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A maintenance operation will be performed on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1629871231 ]. It should only last for a few minutes.  

This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.  

Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).  

For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.  

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.  

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20:34, 24 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-35

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check :Category: on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

**Problems**  
- Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.

**Changes later this week**  
- The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on . This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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16:01, 30 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  

## வார்ப்புருவைத் தானியக்கமாகச் சேர்த்தல்

நான் விக்கித்திட்டம் சமணம் எனும் புதிய திட்டத்துக்காக, அத்திட்டத்தில் உள்ளடக்கப்படக்கூடிய கட்டுரைகளின் பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தில் திட்ட வார்ப்புருவைச் சேர்க்கும் பணியில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளேன். இப் பணியை ஏதேனுமொரு வழியில் தானியக்கமாக்க முடியுமா? இதன்மூலம், நேரவிரயத்தைக் குறைக்கமுடியும் என நம்புகிறேன்.--பிரஷாந் (பேச்சு) 13:59, 31 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  
:நீங்கள் முதலில் கட்டுரை பட்டியல் தயார் செய்ய வேண்டும் அதன்பின்னர் ஏதெனும் ஒரு தானியங்கி கொண்டு வார்ப்புரு இடலாம். பல தானியங்கிகள் உண்டு. இது எனது ஆப்ஸ்விக்கி கருவி, இதில் அணுக்கம் வேண்டினால் உங்கள் தானியங்கிக் கணக்கிற்குத் தருகிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 17:36, 31 ஆகத்து 2021 (UTC)  
::நன்றி நீச்சல்காரன் அவர்களே.. என்னிடம் தானியங்கிக் கணக்கு இல்லை. தானியங்கிக் கணக்கு ஒன்றை என் சார்பில் துவங்குவதற்கு செய்யவேண்டிய நடவடிக்கைகள் குறித்தும் விளக்கமுடியுமா? அவ்வாறு துவங்குவதற்கு ஏதேனும் நிபந்தனைகள் உண்டா எனவும் தயவுசெய்து குறிப்பிடவும்.--பிரஷாந் (பேச்சு) 11:48, 1 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  
:::கட்டுரைப் பட்டியல்கள் தயாராக இருந்து ஒருமுறை பயன்படுத்துவதென்றால் தானியங்கிக் கணக்குத் தேவையில்லை. பட்டியலைக் கொடுத்தால் நானே இற்றை செய்துவிடுகிறேன். தொடர்ந்து தேவைப் படுமென்றால் இங்கே விண்ணப்பிக்கலாம். புதிய பயனர் பெயரை(BOT என முடியும் வகையில்) உருவாக்கி உங்கள் இலக்கினைத் தெளிவாக விளக்குங்கள். அணுக்கம் கிடைக்கும்.-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 16:29, 1 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  
::::தங்கள் வழிகாட்டலுக்கு நன்றி. கட்டுரைப் பட்டியலைத் தயாரித்த பின்னர் தங்களைத் தொடர்பு கொள்கிறேன்.--பிரஷாந் (பேச்சு) 16:53, 1 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-36

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Future changes**  
- In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break.
- Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing.  The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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15:20, 6 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-37

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features.
- A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

**Problems**  
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
- You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
- The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>golang</code></bdi> can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>output</code></bdi> mode has been added to show a program's output.

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15:34, 13 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-38

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
- MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed.
- A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

**Problems**  
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> parameter has been renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0.

**Future changes**  
- The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences.
- The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:31, 20 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-39

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<section begin="technews-2021-W39"/><div>  
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**  
- iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

**Problems**  
- Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.vector-menu-dropdown-noicon</code></bdi>.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October.
- A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
- You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

**Future changes**  
- The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis.

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22:22, 27 செப்டம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-40

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<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/><div>  
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**  
- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>hidden</code></bdi> property will no longer say an entry is <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>implicit</code></bdi> for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>false</code></bdi> for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.
- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for *all production wikis*. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

**Future changes**  
- You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions.
- The JavaScript variables <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgExtraSignatureNamespaces</code></bdi>, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgLegalTitleChars</code></bdi>, and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgIllegalFileChars</code></bdi> will soon be removed from <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw.config</code></bdi>. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript.
- The JavaScript variables <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgCookiePrefix</code></bdi>, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgCookieDomain</code></bdi>, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgCookiePath</code></bdi>, and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>wgCookieExpiration</code></bdi> will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw.cookie</code></bdi> from the "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">mediawiki.cookie</bdi>" module.

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16:31, 4 அக்டோபர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-41

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="technews-2021-W41"/><div>  
Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

- The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.

**Meetings**  
- You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.

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15:30, 11 அக்டோபர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-42

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="technews-2021-W42"/><div>  
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**  
- Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
- 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
- Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:53, 18 அக்டோபர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Coolest Tool Award 2021: Call for nominations

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The third edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations!  

Tools play an essential role for the Wikimedia projects, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas and develop and maintain local and global solutions to support the Wikimedia communities. The Coolest Tool Award aims to recognize and celebrate the coolest tools in a variety of categories.  

The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December. Deadline to submit nominations is October 27. More information: m:Coolest Tool Award. Thanks for your recommendations! -- SSethi (WMF) for the 2021 Coolest Tool Academy team 05:57, 19 அக்டோபர் 2021 (UTC)  
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## Tech News: 2021-43

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- The Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

**Future changes**  
- Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax.
- The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change.

**Meetings**  
- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:08, 25 அக்டோபர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-44

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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20:28, 1 நவம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-45

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.

**Changes later this week**  
- Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Future changes**  
- In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:36, 8 நவம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-46

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>stashfailed</code></bdi>" or "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>DBQueryError</code></bdi>" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

**Problems**  
- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation.
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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22:06, 15 நவம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-47

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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.  

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:02, 22 நவம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-48

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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.  

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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21:14, 29 நவம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-49

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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.  

**Problems**  
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
- The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
- An old ResourceLoader module, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> instead.

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21:58, 6 திசம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-50

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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.  

**Recent changes**  
- There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> will go to the local language default for the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process.

**Changes later this week**  
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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22:27, 13 திசம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Tech News: 2021-51

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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.  

**Tech News**  
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

**Recent changes**  
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.

**Changes later this week**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

**Future changes**  
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.

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22:05, 20 திசம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## தகவல் பெட்டியில் பிறந்த நாள்
ஜெயமோகன் பக்கத்தின் தகவல் பெட்டியில், பிறந்த தேதியும் ஊரும் வரவில்லை. நான் முயன்ற வரை எதுவும் செய்ய முடியவில்லை. யாராவது உதவ முடியுமா? - CXPathi (பேச்சு) 18:57, 27 திசம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  

## Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us!

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The Community Wishlist Survey 2022 starts in less than two weeks (Monday 10 January 2022, 18:00 UTC). We, the team organizing the Survey, need your help.  


**Only you can make the difference**  

How many people will hear and read about the Survey in their language? How many will decide to participate? Will there be enough of you to vote for a change you would like to see? It all depends on you, volunteers.  

**Why are we asking?**  

- We have improved the documentation. It's friendlier and easier to use. This will mean little if it's only in English.
- Thousands of volunteers haven't participated in the Survey yet. We'd like to improve that, too. Three years ago, 1387 people participated. Last year, there were 1773 of them. We hope that in the upcoming edition, there will be even more. You are better than us in contacting Wikimedians outside of wikis. We have prepared some images to share. More to come.

**What is the Community Wishlist Survey?**  

It's an annual survey that allows contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propose and vote for tools and platform improvements. Long years of experience in editing or technical skills are not required.  

Thanks, and be safe and successful in 2022! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:15, 29 திசம்பர் 2021 (UTC)  
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