# விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி (தொழினுட்பம்)/தொகுப்பு15

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## ஆங்கில பட்டியலில் இருந்து தமிழ் கட்டுரைகளை அறிய நுட்பம் தேவை
<font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(✉)</font></sup> 14:17, 29 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)  
::அக்கருவியைப் பயன்படுத்தி எப்படி கண்டறிவது? நீங்கள் அதற்குரிய திரைநிகழ்பதிவை செய்தளித்தால் பலருக்கும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருக்கும். எனக்கு அதில் பகுப்பினை இட்டு அதன் கட்டுரைகளை எடுக்க மட்டுமே தெரியும். உங்கள் பதிவினை காண விரும்புகிறேன்.. <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 06:34, 30 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)  
:::மேலும் ஒரு ஐயம் படங்கள் உடைய கட்டுரைகளை மட்டும் எடுக்க இயலுமா? <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:04, 31 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)  
:::://எனக்கு அதில் பகுப்பினை இட்டு அதன் கட்டுரைகளை எடுக்க மட்டுமே தெரியும்// கூடுதலாக wikidata என்பதில் Site links என்பதையும் பயன்படுத்தினால் உங்களுக்கான தகவல்கள் கிடைக்கும். நிச்சயம் நிகழ்பட பதிவும் பதிவேற்றிவிட்டு உங்களுக்குத் தெரிவிக்கிறேன்.  
:::://படங்கள் உடைய கட்டுரைகளை மட்டும் எடுக்க இயலுமா?// இது உங்களுக்கு உதவலாம் என நினைக்கிறேன். நன்றி -- <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(✉)</font></sup> 04:15, 31 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)  
:::::@Sridhar G 'குவாரி' தளத்தில் அதனோடு பிற வினவல்களையும் தேடிப் பார்த்தேன். எனது முயற்சி பலன் அளிக்கவில்லை. அதனால் மீடியாவிக்கி தளத்தில் கேட்டிருந்தேன். எனக்கு SQL தெரியாது. @Neechalkaran உங்கள் உதவியை எதிர்நோக்குகிறேன். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 14:21, 3 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  
::::::வினவல்களை, கலந்துரையாடி அமைத்துள்ளேன். இனி படக்கட்டுரைகளை மட்டும் எடுக்க இயலும். @Sridhar G நீங்கள் இணைப்பு தந்தமையால் இதனை செய்ய இயன்றது. நன்றி. <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:16, 20 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-02</span>

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**Recent changes**  
- mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
- The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:19, 9 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## வாசி (read)

கட்டுரைகளில் தென்படும் அடையில் (tag) உள்ள **வாசி** [*வாசி | மூலத்தைத் தொகு | பக்க வரலாறு*] என்பது படிமங்களிலும் தெரிகிறது. ஆகவே பார் அல்லது காண் அல்லது ஏதாவது பொருத்தமான சொல்லில் இருப்பது சிறப்பு. AntanO (பேச்சு) 07:24, 11 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

:படிமங்களில் View என்பது முன்னர் எவ்வாறு இருந்தது? அண்மையில் *வாசி* என்று பாகிம் மாற்றியிருந்தார். அது படிமங்களுக்கும் மாறி விட்டது போலத் தெரிகிறது.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 08:48, 11 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  
::View என்றிருந்ததை **பார்** என்றே மாற்றியிருக்கிறேன். காணவும் என்று இலக்கணப் பிழையாக இருந்ததையே அப்படி மாற்றினேன். Read என்றிருந்ததையே **வாசி** என்று மாற்றினேன். அதில் பல இடங்களில் பல்வேறு விதமாக மொழிமாற்றம் செய்யப்பட்டிருந்தது. பயனர் இடைமுகங்களில் ஒரு பதத்தை ஒரே விதமாகவே மொழிபெயர்க்கப்பட வேண்டும். அப்படியில்லாவிட்டால் அவற்றிற் பல குழப்பங்கள் ஏற்படலாம். ஆயினும், இங்கே ஏதாவது ஓரிடம் சிக்கலானதாக இருந்தால் அதை மீண்டும் பழைய நிலைக்கு மாற்ற முயல்கிறேன். அப்படிப்பட்டதை அதற்கென்றே தொடங்கப்பட்ட கட்டுரையில் பதிவிட்டு எனக்கும் குறிப்பிடுங்கள். அப்போது அவற்றைப் பார்த்துத் திருத்த வசதியாக இருக்கும். பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 19:06, 11 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

:::விக்கிப்பீடியா:இடைமுகப்பு மொழிபெயர்ப்பு/வேண்டுகோள்கள் -மா. செல்வசிவகுருநாதன் (பேச்சு) 19:11, 11 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-03</span>

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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**  
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
- Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.
- Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
- You can now thank edits made by bots.
- An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

**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 on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately.
- The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>jquery.cookie</code></bdi> module was deprecated and replaced with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mediawiki.cookie</code></bdi> module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.

**Future changes**  
- Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:12, 16 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## விக்கித்தரவில் பக்கங்களை இணைக்க நுட்பம் உள்ளதா?

விக்கித்தரவில் இணைக்கப்படாமல் பல பகுப்புகளும், சில கட்டுரைகளும் உள்ளன. இவற்றை தொகுத்து, விக்கித்தரவில் இணைக்க நுட்பம் உள்ளதா? எ-கா பகுப்பு பேச்சு:ஆப்பிள்கள் என்ற துணைப்பகுப்பு விக்கித்தரவில் இணைக்கப்படாமல் உள்ளது. <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 00:08, 19 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

:d:MediaWiki:Gadget-slurpInterwiki.js என்பது உள்ளது. பயனர் இடைமுகப்புக் கருவியாக, விக்கித்தரவு திட்டத்தில் வைத்துக் கொள்ளலாம். அவர்கள் கூறிய படி செய்து பார்த்தேன். ஆனால், எப்படி செயற்படுகிறது என்பது புரியவில்லை. தானியக்கமாக இணைக்க வழு பதிந்துள்ளனர். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:42, 23 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  
::@Sriveenkat உங்களால் வழிகாட்ட இயலும் என எண்ணுகிறேன். எண்ணமிடுக. <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 02:02, 24 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## உரிய வார்ப்புருக்கள் இருந்தும் அட்டவணையில் ஏன் வழு வருகிறது?

, ஆகிய வார்ப்புருக்கள் கீழ்கண்ட கட்டுரையில் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது. இருப்பினும், வழு ஏன் வருகிறது?  
காண்க:ஆரிசின்_(திரைப்படம்)#பாராட்டுக்கள் <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:10, 20 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

:@சத்திரத்தான் நன்றி. உங்களின் பக்க மேம்பாட்டினைப் பார்த்து கற்றேன். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 02:42, 22 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## தாவரவியல் பெயர்களை தமிழ் பெயர்களாக மாற்ற நுட்ப உதவி தேவை

இதற்குரிய உரையால் பக்கத்தில் விரிவாக தெரிவித்துள்ளேன். கட்டுரையில் 50க்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களை உருவாக்கி கட்டுரைகளை உருவாக்கி வருகிறேன்/வருகிறோம். விரைந்து செய்ய தொழில் நுட்ப வழிகாட்டல்களை/உதவிகளைத் தருக. இதற்கான உரையாடல் பக்கத்தில் எண்ணமிடுக. பேச்சு:மூலிகைப்_பட்டியல்_(தமிழ்நாடு)#தாவரவியல்_பெயர்களை_மாற்ற_உதவி_தேவை <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 08:10, 21 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-04</span>

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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**  
- A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:03, 23 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## எனது wikitch கணக்கினுள் புகுபதிகை செய்ய இயலவில்லை?

கடந்த மூன்று மாதங்களுக்கு முன், From The Grid With Toolforge Build Service (kubernets) நடைபெற்றது. எனது விக்கித் தானியங்கி பைத்தான் நிரல்களை wikitech கணக்கினுள் வைத்திருந்தேன்.அக்கணக்கினுள் இப்பொழுது புகுபதிகை செய்ய இயலவில்லை. இதனைப் பார்த்தும் எனக்குப் புரியவில்லை. நம்மில் wikitech கணக்கு வைத்துள்ளவர்களுடன் உரையாட விரும்புகிறேன். அக்கணக்கு வைத்திருப்பவர் தெரிவியுங்கள். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 16:14, 24 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-05</span>

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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**  
- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org.
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

**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).
- On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new [[]] page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>targets</code></bdi> option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>skins</code></bdi> option instead.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:31, 29 சனவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் இல்லா வார்ப்புருக்கள்

மூலிகைப் பட்டியல் (தமிழ்நாடு) என்பதிலுள்ள கட்டுரைகளை உருவாக்க, ஒருங்கிணைப்பு செய்து வருகிறேன். எனவே, இவற்றிற்குரிய தாவரவியல் வார்ப்புருக்களை இறக்குமதி செய்ய வேண்டியதாக சூழ்நிலை உள்ளது. ஆனால், பல தமிழ்நாட்டு தாவரங்களுக்கு உரிய வார்ப்புருக்கள், ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் இருந்து இறக்குமதி செய்ய இயலவில்லை. எடுத்துக்காட்டாக, வார்ப்புரு:Taxonomy/Hygrophila இதற்குரிய தீர்வினைத் தருக. நான் ஆய்ந்த வரை விக்கியினங்களில் தற்போதுள்ள பன்னாட்டு அறிஞர் வகைப்பாட்டியல் முறை உள்ளது. ஆனால் ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் அவை உருவாக்கப்படவில்லை. பொதுவாக தாவரவளமுள்ள நாடுகளின் தாவரங்களைக் குறித்து மிகக் குறைவான வகைப்பாட்டியல் தரவுகளே உள்ளன. அதுவும் ஏறத்தாழ பத்துவருடங்கள் பழைமையானது எனலாம்!--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 02:17, 1 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-06</span>

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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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
- On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks".

**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).
- Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.

**Future changes**  
- 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:22, 5 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-07</span>

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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 WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.

**Problems**  
- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

**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).
- As work continues on the grid engine deprecation, tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 05:48, 13 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## CS1 errors - புதிய வழு

Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 10:34, 16 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-08</span>

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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**  
- If you have the "" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
- There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
- Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
- The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB.

**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).

- Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
- The CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>filter</code></bdi> property can now be used in HTML <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>style</code></bdi> attributes in wikitext.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 15:36, 19 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-09</span>

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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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
- The mw.config value <code>wgGlobalGroups</code> now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))</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).

**Future changes**  
- The to change edit tags (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>changetags</code></bdi>) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:23, 26 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)  

## சான்று வார்ப்புரு பயன்பாட்டு எல்லை

ஒரு கட்டுரைக்கு சான்றுகள் தருவது, மிக முதன்மையான பங்களிப்பு என மேல்விக்கியில் தெரிவிக்கின்றனர். தாவரவியல் சார்ந்த குடும்பம், பேரினம், இனம் கட்டுரைகளுக்கு, சான்றுகளைத் தர என்பதை உருவாக்கி பல நூறு தாவரவியல் பெயர்களுக்கு பயன்படுத்தி வருகிறேன். இதன் முக்கியத்துவம் யாதெனில், ஒரு தாவரவியல் பெயருக்கு, இரண்டு வெவ்வேறு சான்றுகளை தர இயலும். அச்சான்று இணையதளங்களைக் கொண்டு, கட்டுரையை விரிவாக்கவும் இயலும்; உருவாக்கவும் இயலும். ஒரு கட்டுரையில் ஏறத்தாழ 70 தாவரவியல் பெயர்களுக்கு மட்டுமே சான்றுகளை இவ்வாறு தர இயலுகிறது. ஆனால், பல கட்டுரைகளுக்கு நூற்றுக் கணக்கில் சான்றுகளை இடவேண்டிய சூழல் உள்ளது. காண்க: துன்பேர்சியா வெறும் பெயர் பட்டியலை உருவாக்குவது எனது நோக்கமல்ல. உரிய சான்றுகளை இதுபோல தந்தால் அது கட்டுரைகளின் வளர்ச்சிக்கு உறுதுணையாகும். எனவே, இப்பேரினக்கட்டுரையில், இனங்கள் 70 வரை வார்ப்புருக்களையும், 71 -150 வரை சான்று என வெளியிணைப்பாகவும் தந்துள்ளேன். தொடர்ந்து இம்முறையை பிற கட்டுரைகளுக்கும் தர விரும்புகிறேன். இதற்கு மாற்று நுட்பம் ஏதேனும் உள்ளதா? இம்முறையையே பின்பற்றவா? <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 13:37, 1 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## வார்ப்புரு பேச்சு:BHL author வழு

BHL என்பது இணையத்தில் உள்ள சிறந்த எண்ணிம நூலகம். இதில் தாவரவியல் குறித்த பன்னாட்டு அறிஞர்களின், பல்லாண்டு ஆவணத் தொகுப்புகள் உள்ளன. எடுத்துக்காட்டாக, ஒரு தாவரவியலாளரைக் குறித்து அறிய அவர் பெயரை இந்த வார்ப்புருவில் இட்டால் வரலாற்று சிறப்பு மிக்க ஆவணங்களை நாம் காண இயலும். நாம் தமிழில் தலைப்பு வைப்பதால், இது தமிழ் தலைப்பில் தேடுகிறது. அதனால் இடர். இதற்குரிய தீர்வு கண்டால் ஆயிரகணக்கான கட்டுரைகளுக்கு சான்றுகளை எளிதில் அமைக்கலாம். இது குறித்து தொடர்ந்து அந்த வார்ப்புருவின் பேச்சுப் பக்கத்திலேயே தெரிவியுங்கள். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:18, 4 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-10</span>

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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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Special:Book</code></bdi> page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension.
- Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
- Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Gadget</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Gadget_definition</code></bdi> namespaces and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>gadgets-definition-edit</code></bdi> user were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
- A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.

**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**  
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>?useparsoid=1</code></bdi> to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:46, 4 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## இப்பகுப்புகளைத் துப்புரவு செய்ய என்ன நுட்பம் கையாள வேண்டும்?

1. பகுப்பு பேச்சு:Automatic taxobox cleanup
1. அதே போல, பேச்சு:எலுமிச்சை ஊசிமல்லி என்பதில் கூறப்பட்ட பகுப்பு
1. <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 04:26, 10 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)
:வறுமையின் நிறம் சிவப்பு, ஜெ. ஜெயலலிதா உள்ளிட்ட ஏராளமான கட்டுரைகளில் (23,791), மேற்கோள்களில் வழுக்கள் காணப்படுகின்றன. இவை அண்மையில் ஏற்பட்டவை போன்று தெரியவருகிறது. (AntanO (பேச்சு) 16:07, 10 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  
::@Selvasivagurunathan m தொழிநுட்ப ரீதியாகத் தெரியவில்லை ஆனால் இவ்வாறு செய்தால் பிழை சரியாகிறது. காண்க: 1, 2 (ஆனால் அனைத்துப் பிழைகளுக்கும் இது பொருந்துமா எனத் தெரியவில்லை. -- <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> 💬உரையாடுக 16:24, 10 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  
:::மாதங்களில் ஒதுக்கப்பட்ட மதிப்பு (assigned value) புதிய பெயருக்கேற்ப அல்லது ஆங்கிலத்தில் அமைந்தால் சிக்கல் இல்லை. எ.கா: செப்டம்பர் (பழையது) > செப்தெம்பர் (புதியது), மார்ச் (பழையது) > மார்ச்சு (புதியது), January - December. AntanO (பேச்சு) 16:38, 10 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  
:CS1 errors: dates குறித்து தொடர்ந்து உரையாடி வழுக்களை சரிசெய்யுமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன். இதில் எனக்கு நிபுணத்துவம் இல்லாததால், பரிந்துரைகளை முன்வைக்க இயலவில்லை. - மா. செல்வசிவகுருநாதன் (பேச்சு) 05:34, 16 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  
::திகதிப் பிழைகளை அகற்ற மாதத்தின் பெயர்களை சரியாக எழுதினால் திருத்தலாம். எ. கா (ஜனவரி-சனவரி) (பெப்ரவரி - பெப்பிரவரி) இந்த திகதிப் பிழை, சில மாதங்களுக்கு முன்னர் இடைமுகத்தில் ஏற்பட்ட மாற்றத்தின் பாதிப்பு. தானியங்கி கொண்டு மாற்றலாம். ஆனாலும் எல்லா இடங்களிலும் தானியங்கி மாதங்களின் பெயர்களை மாற்றுகிறது.-- சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 18:50, 22 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-11</span>

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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).
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
- Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.

**Future changes**  
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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## உதவி தேவை

இங்கு பட்டியலாகியுள்ள கட்டுரைகளில் சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினரின் பெயரை சி. வி. கணேசன் என மாற்றி உதவ வேண்டுகிறேன். - மா. செல்வசிவகுருநாதன் (பேச்சு) 14:24, 14 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article

meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikidata/Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article நாளைத் தொடங்க உள்ளது. யாவாக்கிறிட்டு தெரிந்தவர் விக்கிமீடியாவின் மென்பொருள் குழுவுடன் இணைந்து செயற்பட இது ஒரு நல்ல வாய்ப்பு. ஈடுபட்டு திறன் வளர்ப்பீர். மேலதிக விவரம்: meta:Event:WishathonMarch2024 <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 14:39, 14 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-12</span>

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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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown.

**Problems**  
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in -to- languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.

**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).
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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## செம்பட்டியல் வார்ப்புருவில் வழு நீக்குக

வார்ப்புரு பேச்சு:IUCN2012.2 இங்கு தெரிவித்துள்ளேன். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:14, 22 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-13</span>

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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**  
- 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:56, 25 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## வார்ப்புரு பேச்சு:Infobox cultivar வழு

வார்ப்புரு பேச்சு:Infobox cultivar என்பதில் எடுத்துக்காட்டுடன் விளக்கியுள்ளேன். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:57, 31 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-14</span>

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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**  
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.

**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 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 03:35, 2 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-15</span>

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<section begin="technews-2024-W15"/><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**  
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
- A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.

**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).
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:37, 8 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-16</span>

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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**  
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.

**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).
- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
- A new variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>page_last_edit_age</code></bdi> will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.

**Future changes**  
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>abuse_filter</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>abuse_filter_history</code></bdi> tables. Some queries might need to be updated.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:28, 15 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-17</span>

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<section begin="technews-2024-W17"/><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**  
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention.
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

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

**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 /vector.js to /vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:27, 22 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-18</span>

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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 appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: . These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences (""). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
- Seven new wikis have been created:
  - a in Betawi (<code>w:bew:</code>)
  - a in Kusaal (<code>w:kus:</code>)
  - a in Igala (<code>w:igl:</code>)
  - a in Karakalpak (<code>wikt:kaa:</code>)
  - a in Burmese (<code>s:my:</code>)
  - a in Malay (<code>s:ms:</code>)
  - a in Georgian (<code>s:ka:</code>)
- You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

**Problems**  
- Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi>. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 03:33, 30 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-19</span>

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<section begin="technews-2024-W19"/><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 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 (""). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the <code>SiteAdminHelper</code>. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page.
- 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.

**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).
- 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".

**Future changes**  
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 16:44, 6 மே 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-20</span>

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<section begin="technews-2024-W20"/><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**  
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__</code></bdi> to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
- If you use the user-preference "", then the template-page feature "" will now also work without reloading the page.
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> attribute. This is identical in usage to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
- 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.

**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 [[]] 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.

**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.
- Two columns of the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pagelinks</code></bdi> database table (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pl_namespace</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pl_title</code></bdi>) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>linktarget</code></bdi> table instead (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>lt_namespace</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>lt_title</code></bdi>). In your existing SQL queries:
  - Replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>JOIN pagelinks</code></bdi> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>JOIN linktarget</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>pl_</code></bdi> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>lt_</code></bdi> in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>ON</code></bdi> statement
  - Below that add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id</code></bdi>
  - See <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">phab:T222224</bdi> for technical reasoning.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:58, 13 மே 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-21</span>

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<section begin="technews-2024-W21"/><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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
- 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.

**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 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:04, 20 மே 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-22</span>

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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**  
- 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: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.collapsible</code></bdi><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.multicol</code></bdi><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.reflist</code></bdi><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.coordinates</code></bdi><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>.topicon</code></bdi>. 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:15, 28 மே 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-23</span>

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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**  
- It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available.
- The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category</code></bdi>" to "<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category</code></bdi>".
- One new wiki has been created: a in Kadazandusun (<code>w:dtp:</code>)

**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**  
- Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:34, 3 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-24</span>

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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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
- 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw-reference-text</code></bdi> class, Parsoid now also adds the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>reference-text</code></bdi> class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available.

**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.

**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 version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> 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.
- On multilingual wikis that use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> 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- that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:20, 10 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

## தானியங்கித் தொகுப்புகளை மறைத்து வரலாற்றைப் பார்க்க முடியுமா?

ஒரு பக்கத்தின் வரலாற்றைப் பார்க்கும் போது தானியங்கித் தொகுப்புகளை மறைத்து வரலாற்றைப் பார்க்க முடியுமா? கூகுள் கட்டுரைகளை ஆய்வு செய்யும் போது பெரும்பாலும் தானியங்கித் தொகுப்புகளாக உள்ளன. அவற்றில் பங்களிப்பாளர்கள் செய்த மாற்றங்கள் என்ன என்பதை மட்டும் தனித்துப் பார்ப்பது எப்படி? இரவி (பேச்சு) 10:31, 14 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

:வணக்கம் அண்ணா, இங்கு காணலாம். <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> 💬உரையாடுக 15:24, 16 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

:பக்க வரலாற்றில் இவ்வசதி இல்லை.--AntanO (பேச்சு) 06:38, 17 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

@ இரவி! ஒரு கட்டுரையின் வரலாற்றுப்பக்கத்தில் உள்ள தானியங்கி பெயர்களை மட்டும் நீக்கி, பிற பங்களிப்பாளர் பெயர்களை எடுக்கலாமென்றே எண்ணுகிறேன். சில ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் எடுத்துள்ளேன். ஆனால் bot என்ற பின்னொட்டு அனைத்திலும் இருக்குமா? அப்பின்னொடு உள்ள கட்டுரை ஒன்றினைத் தருக. பியூட்டிபுல் சூப் துணை கொண்டு எடுக்க முயற்சிக்க உள்ளேன்.--<font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 05:30, 23 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-25</span>

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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**  
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details.
- The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future.
- The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page.

**Problems**  
- Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data .
- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here.

**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 June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable.
- Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:48, 17 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-26</span>

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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**  
- 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.
- 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.

**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.

**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 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:32, 24 சூன் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-27</span>

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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**  
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 in Mandailing (<code>w:btm:</code>)

**Problems**  
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team.

**Future changes**  
- 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 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:59, 1 சூலை 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-28</span>

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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**  
- 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.

**Tech News survey**  
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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:31, 8 சூலை 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-29</span>

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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 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.
- 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:30, 16 சூலை 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-30</span>

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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.  

**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.
- 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.
- 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.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:04, 23 சூலை 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-31</span>

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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.  

**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 in Czech (<code>voy:cs:</code>)

**Learn more**  
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:10, 29 சூலை 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-32</span>

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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.  

**Feature news**  
- Two new parser functions will be available this week: <code>#dir</code> and <code>#bcp47</code>. These will reduce the need for <code>Template:Dir</code> and <code>Template:BCP47</code> 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.
- 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 wikis over the next few months. The and 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:43, 5 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## விக்கிதானுலாவி பயன்பாடு

தானியங்கி ஊடாக விக்கிதானுலாவி பயன்படுத்தும்போது உங்கள் தானியங்கியை இங்கு சேர்த்துவிடுங்கள். விக்கிப்பீடியா:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON AntanO (பேச்சு) 07:43, 9 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-33</span>

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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.  

**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.
- 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 in West Coast Bajau (<code>w:bdr:</code>)

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:21, 12 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## படிமங்களை இறக்குமதி செய்தல்

அண்மைய ஓர் உரையாடலின்படி ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியாவிலிருந்து படங்களைத் தானியக்கமாகத் தமிழ்க் கட்டுரைகளில் இணைக்க வேண்டிய தேவை வந்தது. தானியக்கமாகப் படங்களை இணைப்பதைவிட ஒரு பயனர் கருவியாக உருவாக்கினால் அனைவரும் பயன்படுத்துவது எளிதாகுமென இக்கருவியை உருவாக்கியுள்ளேன். இதை பயனரின் common.js இட்டுக் கொண்டால், மூலத்தைத் தொகு சாளரத்தில் "Pull Images" என்ற பொத்தான் வரும். அதைச் சொடுக்கினால் ஆங்கிலப்பக்கத்தில் இருந்து தமிழில் இல்லாத படிமங்களை ஆங்கில விளக்கமுடன் . நாம் மொழிபெயர்த்துக் கொண்டு சேமிக்கலாம்.  
<syntaxhighlight lang="JavaScript">  
mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Neechalkaran/imageimporter.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');  
</syntaxhighlight>  
இதைப் பயன்படுத்திப் பார்த்து ஏதேனும் சிக்கலோ பரிந்துரையோ இருந்தால் தெரிவிக்க வேண்டுகிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 09:06, 15 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

:தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாக் கட்டுரைகளில் பொதுப் படிமங்களை கொண்டு வர எளிதாக உள்ளது. பல படிமங்கள் உள்ள ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியா கட்டுரைகள் எனில் தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாக் கட்டுரைகள் அதற்கேற்றவாறு விரிவாக எழுதியிருந்தால் பயனுள்ளதாக இருக்கும்.-- சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 10:59, 15 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  
:வணக்கம் நீச்சல், இந்த வசதியினை ஏற்படுத்தித் தந்தமைக்கு மனமார்ந்த பாராட்டுகளும் நன்றிகளும். Pull Images எனக் கொடுத்தால் விக்கிப் பொதுவகம், விக்கிமூலம் ஆகியவற்றின் படிமங்களும் சேர்ந்தே வருகிறது (படத்தில் உள்ளவாறு). இதனை வடிகட்டி உதவவும். நன்றி-- <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> 💬உரையாடுக 16:24, 17 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

<section begin="Sub-referencing"/>  

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.</span>  

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">**We want your feedback** to make sure this feature works well for you:</span>  

- <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.</span>
- <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.</span>  

செய்தியைப் பரப்ப எங்களுக்கு உதவுங்கள். --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)  
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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-34</span>

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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.  

**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.
- Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the <code><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">categories</bdi></code> property of <code><bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">mw.title objects</bdi></code>. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.

**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 <code>Talk:WP:</code> so that their titles start with <code>Wikipedia talk:</code>), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/</bdi> 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:53, 20 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## 3rd Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024)

m:3rd Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024) கலந்து கொள்ள உள்ளேன். தமிழ் விக்கிமீடியாவின் நீச்சல்காரனின் பெயரினை பார்த்தேன். வேறு யாரேனும் கலந்து கொள்கிறீர்களா? பின்வரும் பங்களிப்புகளை எளிமையாகச் செய்ய பைத்தான்3 வழி செய்ய உள்ளேன்.  
- <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 05:26, 23 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-35</span>

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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.  

**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.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:32, 26 ஆகத்து 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-36</span>

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<section begin="technews-2024-W36"/><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.  

**Weekly highlight**  
- Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

**Feature news**  
- Editors who use the [[]] page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word <code dir="ltr"></code> to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.
- Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.
- Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

**Project updates**  
- A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

**Learn 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:
  - Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  - State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:06, 3 செப்டெம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-37</span>

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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.  

**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.
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>entity:getSitelink</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)</code></bdi> will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking.

**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.
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS</code></bdi> namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS:</code></bdi> (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mos</code></bdi>).

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:52, 9 செப்டெம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-38</span>

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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.  

**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 technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
- The new automated [[]] page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw-message-box</code></bdi> 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 newer <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>cdx-message</code></bdi> group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.

**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.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:02, 17 செப்டெம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-39</span>

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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.  

**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 <code></code> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax <code></code> are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
- Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.
- View all community-submitted 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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## 'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

<div lang="en" dir="ltr"><i>Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.</i>  

Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.  
The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the <span><u>*General*</u></span> section of the **Tools** sidebar menu will move into the <span><u>*In Other Projects*</u></span> section.  

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.  
More information can be found on the project page.  

We welcome your feedback and questions.  
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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-40</span>

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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.  

**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 <code dir=ltr>?veaction=editsource</code> to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences.
- 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.
- 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 community-submitted 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.

**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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## விக்கி உருமாற்றி
அனைவருக்கும் வணக்கம். நீச்சல்காரன் அவர்களின் முயற்சியால் ஒரு சில :en:User:Neechalkaran/Tools (கருவிகள்) உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. அதில் குறிப்பாக விக்கி உருமாற்றியின் வழியாக அட்டவணை உருவாக்கம், ஆங்கில உள் இணைப்புகளை தமிழ் உள் இணைப்புகளாக மாற்றுதல், உரலியை விக்கிப்பீடியாவிற்கு தகுந்தாற் போல் தகுந்த மேற்களாக மாற்றுதல் போன்றவை பயனுள்ளதாக உள்ளது. நீச்சல்காரன் அவர்களுக்கு என் நன்றிகள். நீங்களும் பயன்படுத்திப் பாருங்கள். நன்றி. --[[பயனர்:சா அருணாசலம்|சா. அருணாசலம்] (உரையாடல்) 06:04, 1 அக்டோபர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-41</span>

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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.  

**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.

**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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- It is now possible for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code></code></bdi> attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
- Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.
- 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:
  - a in Komering (<code>w:kge:</code>)
  - a in Mooré (<code>m:mos:</code>)
  - a in Madurese (<code>wikt:mad:</code>)
  - a in Gorontalo (<code>q:gor:</code>)
  - a in Shan (<code>n:shn:</code>)

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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-42</span>

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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.  

**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.
- 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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">*hastemplate*</bdi> and <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">*incategory*</bdi> keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available.
- View all community-submitted 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.
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed.
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <code></code> 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.

**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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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-43</span>

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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.  

**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 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 community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week.
- 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 <code dir="ltr"></code> parser function. For example, <code dir="ltr"></code> will show as "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"></bdi>". Previously, <code dir="ltr"></code> could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. <code dir="ltr">#timef</code> (or <code dir="ltr">#timefl</code> 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.
- Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using <code dir="ltr"></code> instead of using <code dir="ltr"></code>.
- 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.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:52, 21 அக்டோபர் 2024 (UTC)  

## 'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the *Wikidata item* sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the **General** section into the **In Other Projects** section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29, 22 அக்டோபர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-44</span>

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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.  

**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 community-submitted 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.

**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 <code>emitTransitionOnStep</code> to <code>true</code> to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag <code>allowAutomaticBack</code> to avoid back-buttons they don't want.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:56, 28 அக்டோபர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-45</span>

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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.  

**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.
- 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.
- View all community-submitted 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.

**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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:50, 4 நவம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-46</span>

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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.  

**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.
- View all community-submitted 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.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- In <code dir="ltr">1.44.0-wmf-2</code>, the logic of Wikibase function <code>getAllStatements</code> changed to behave like <code>getBestStatements</code>. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.
- 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.

**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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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-47</span>

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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.  

**Updates for editors**  
- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.

**In depth**  
- There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

**Meetings and events**  
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from **November 12 to December 10 2024**. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
- Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place **November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC**.
- A Language community meeting will take place **November 29, 16:00 UTC** to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 02:00, 19 நவம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-48</span>

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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.  

**Updates for editors**  
- A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including -to- support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
- The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>B</code></bdi> for bold and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>I</code></bdi> for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.
- Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: <bdi>bswiki</bdi><bdi>elwiki</bdi><bdi>euwiki</bdi><bdi>fawiki</bdi><bdi>fiwiki</bdi><bdi>frwikiquote</bdi><bdi>frwikisource</bdi><bdi>frwikiversity</bdi><bdi>frwikivoyage</bdi><bdi>idwiki</bdi><bdi>lvwiki</bdi><bdi>plwiki</bdi><bdi>ptwiki</bdi><bdi>urwiki</bdi><bdi>viwikisource</bdi><bdi>zhwikisource</bdi>. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>,</code></bdi> and un-selecting "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">Live Autocompletion</bdi>".
- Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.
- The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.

**Meetings and events**  
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:41, 25 நவம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-49</span>

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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.  

**Updates for editors**  
- Two new parser functions were added this week. The <code dir="ltr">#interwikilink</code> function adds an interwiki link and the <code dir="ltr">#interlanguagelink</code> function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS:</code></bdi> on English Wikipedia conflict with the <code>mos</code> language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
- Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
- Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: <bdi>arwiki</bdi><bdi>cawiki</bdi><bdi>frwiki</bdi><bdi>mediawikiwiki</bdi><bdi>orwiki</bdi><bdi>wawiki</bdi><bdi>wawiktionary</bdi><bdi>wikidatawiki</bdi><bdi>zhwiki</bdi>. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
- This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:22, 2 திசம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-50</span>

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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.  

**Weekly highlight**  
- Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">#wikimedia-techdocs</bdi> IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

**Updates for editors**  

- Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear *while* they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
- The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <code dir=ltr></code> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
- The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, <code dir=ltr>archiveUrl</code> and <code dir=ltr>archiveDate</code>, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates.
- One new wiki has been created: a in Indonesian (<code>voy:id:</code>)
- Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
- Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
- The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

**Meetings and events**  
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:15, 9 திசம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## விக்கிதரவு இணைப்பு தொடர்பாக

தமிழில் தொகுக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு சில தொகுப்புகள் இணையான ஆங்கிலப் பக்கத்துடன் இணைக்கப்படாமல் விக்கித்தரவில் தனி உருப்படியாகப் பதிவு பெற்றுத் தனி எண்களுடன் உள்ளன. இது போன்ற தொகுப்புகளைக் காண நேரிட்டு தொடர்புடைய ஆங்கிலத் தொகுப்புடன் இணைக்கும் போது (inter-language link) நாம் இணைக்க முற்படும் தமிழ்த் தொகுப்பிற்கு ஏற்கனவே விக்கித்தரவில் தனி எண் உள்ளதால் சிக்கல் எழுகிறது. இத்தகைய சூழலில் விக்கித்தரவு எண்ணை நீக்கிவிட்டு ஆங்கிலத் தொகுப்புடன் இணைக்கலாமா அல்லது merge வசதியுள்ளதா. உ.ம். Pethanaickenpalayam தொகுப்பிற்கு இணையான தமிழ்த் தொகுப்பான பெத்தநாயக்கன்பாளையம் இணைக்கும் போது விக்கித்தரவு உருப்படியினை நீக்கிவிட்டு இணைத்துள்ளேன். இது சரியான நடைமுறையா? தெரிவிக்கவும். நன்றி. சத்திரத்தான் (பேச்சு) 01:40, 13 திசம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

:விக்கித்தரவு உருப்படிகளை இணைக்கும் அணுக்கம் நமக்கில்லை. எனவே நீங்கள் செய்திருப்பதே சரியான வழிமுறையாகக் கருதுகிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 02:38, 13 திசம்பர் 2024 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2024-51</span>

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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.  

**Weekly highlight**  
- Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

**Updates for editors**  
- Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
- Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
- The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:24, 16 திசம்பர் 2024 (UTC)