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Tech News: 2021-02[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Je kunt je voorkeuren zo instellen dat het ontbreken van een bewerkingssamenvatting tot een melding leidt. Dit kon conflicteren met de captcha die sommige gebruikers onder bepaalde omstandigheden moeten invullen. Dit probleem is nu verholpen. [1]
Via de tijdsaanduiding van een gebeurtenis in Speciaal:Logboeken kon een link worden verkregen naar die specifieke gebeurtenis. Die link liet voorheen in geval van niet-publieke gebeurtenissen geen gebeurtenis zien ongeacht of de gebruiker de benodigde rechten had. Dit probleem is nu verholpen. [2]
Moderators kunnen het misbruikfilter gebruiken om automatisch slechte bewerkingen te voorkomen. Drie wijzigingen zijn vorige week doorgevoerd:
- De bewerkingsinterface voor het wijzigen van filters laat nu syntax errors zien tijdens het typen, vergelijkbaar met JavaScript pagina's. Je krijgt ook een waarschuwing te zien voor reguliere expressies die matchen met een lege string. Meer waarschuwingen zullen later toegevoegd worden. [3]
- Oversighters kunnen nu meerdere gelogde gebeurtenissen verbergen met vinkjes in Speciaal:AbuseLog, vergelijkbaar met hoe reguliere verwijdering van revisies werkt. [4]
- Als een filter teveel acties stopt na een filterwijzinging zal het filter automatisch worden beperkt. De meest ingrijpende acties worden dan uitgeschakeld om te voorkomen dat een grote groep bewerkers per ongeluk kan worden geblokkeerd wanneer een moderator een fout heeft gemaakt. In dit geval krijgt de gebruiker nu een melding.
Er is een nieuwe tool om interfacethema's te maken. Je kan ook bestaande thema's bekijken en feedback geven. [5]
Bots die de API gebruiken zetten niet langer automatisch pagina's op hun volglijst op basis van hun accountvoorkeuren. Het opgeven van de waarde watch voor watchlist werkt wel zoals normaal. Dit is gedaan om het formaat van volglijstdata in de database te beperken. [6]
Scribunto's bestandsmetadata omvat nu ook lengte. [7]
Pagina's met CSS of JavaScript code kunnen nu gelinkt worden naar een specifiek regelnummer, bijvoorbeeld regel 50 van Common.js op de Nederlandse Wikipedia. [8]
Er was een nieuwe versie van MediaWiki vorige week. Je kan een log met alle 763 wijzigingen bekijken. De meeste wijzigingen zijn klein en hebben geen direct merkbare invloed.

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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 12 januari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 13 januari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 14 januari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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11 jan 2021 16:42 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-03[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 19 januari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 20 januari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 21 januari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Het Growth team is van plan om features toe te voegen die meer nieuwkomers moeten aanmoedigen om actief bij te dragen aan Wikipedia's. Je kan helpen door de interface te vertalen.
Wikimedia Commons kan tijdelijk niet bewerkt worden op 26 januari vanaf 07:00 (UTC) vanwege onderhoud. [9]
MassMessage posts kunnen automatisch een datum meekrijgen in de toekomst omdat degenen die MassMessages versturen nu ook pagina's kunnen versturen met een MassMessage. Pagina's zijn lastiger te ondertekenen, zodoende. Als er zich een situatie voordoet waarin een MassMessage post geen datum moet meekrijgen kan je dit de ontwikkelaars laten weten.

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18 jan 2021 17:10 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-04[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Problemen en onderhoud

Wikimedia Commons kan tijdelijk niet bewerkt worden op 26 januari vanaf 07:00 (UTC) vanwege onderhoud. Wikitech is tijdelijk niet bereikbaar op 28 januari vanaf 07:00 (UTC) vanwege onderhoud. [10][11]

Wijzigingen later deze week

Detectie van bij elkaar passende haakjes (bracket matching) zal worden toegevoegd aan de CodeMirror syntax highlighter op een aantal wiki's. De eerste wiki's waarvan vaststaat dat ze deze feature krijgen op 27 januari zijn de Duitse en Catalaanse Wikipedia. [12]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 26 januari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 27 januari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 28 januari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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25 jan 2021 19:31 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-05[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Problemen en onderhoud

IPv6 addressen in diffs gebruikten kleine letters in plaats van hoofdletters waardoor links in Speciaal:Bijdragen niet werkten. Dit is nu verholpen. [13]

Wijzigingen later deze week

Je kan binnenkort links naar pagina's op de taalneutrale versie van Wikisource toevoegen aan Wikidata items. [14]
Wikimedianen gebruiken nogal eens een "non-breaking space" ( ) om twee dingen van elkaar los te maken zonder dat ze door een nieuwe regel worden opgebroken. Je kan dit karakter nu toevoegen via "Speciale tekens" in de 2010 editor, 2017 editor en de visuele tekstverwerker. In de visuele tekstverwerker zal het karakter worden weergegeven als een spatie met een grijze achtergrond. [15][16]
Wiki's gebruiken misbruikfilters om slechte bewerkingen tegen te gaan. Bij het bewerken van een filter (alleen moderatoren) kan nu voor IP ranges zowel de syntax 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 als 1.2.3.4/27 gebruikt worden. [17]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 2 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 3 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 4 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Minerva is het thema dat Wikimedia wiki's gebruiken voor de mobiele versie van de site. Als een pagina beveiligd is en niet bewerkt kan worden dan kan je normaal wel de wikitext bekijken, maar dit werkt niet naar verwachting met Minerva. Op de Engelse Wikipedia is nu een "brontekst bekijken" link toegevoegd aan de zwarte "toast" melding die je ziet wanneer je probeert om een beveiligde pagina te bewerken. Een ander probleem is dat MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext op een aantal wiki's HTML gebruikt die niet goed kan worden weergegeven op veel mobiele apparaten waardoor overlappende tekst ontstaat. Als jouw wiki in de lijst van dit Wikidata item staat, controleer dan of de wikitext "position:relative" bevat en start een lokale discussie als dit het geval is. Geen van de Nederlandstalige projecten is hierdoor getroffen. Meer informatie is beschikbaar. [18][19]
Cloud VPS en Toolforge krijgen op 8 februari een nieuw IP dat ze zullen gebruiken om verbinding te maken met wiki's. Het nieuwe IP adres is 185.15.56.1. Verder lezen.

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1 feb 2021 23:38 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-06[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Volglijsten en overlegpagina's zijn nu beschikbaar in de Wikipedia app voor Android. [20]

Wijzigingen later deze week

Je kan nieuwe bewerkingen bijhouden door pagina's op je volglijst te zetten. Volglijsten zijn individueel voor iedere wiki. Op 11 februari komt de GlobalWatchlist naar Meta-wiki met de mogelijkheid om de bewerkingen van tot 5 verschillende wiki's bij te houden op één pagina. Deze globale volglijst zal beschikbaar zijn via Special:GlobalWatchlist op Meta-wiki. De instellingen voor de globale volglijst kunnen aangepast worden via Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings, eveneens op Meta-wiki. [21]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 9 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 10 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 11 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Het formulier voor het instellen van paginabeveiliging zal de OOUI look-and-feel gebruiken. Special:Import krijgt ook de nieuwe look. Deze pagina's zullen hierdoor makkelijker in gebruik zijn op mobiele apparaten. [22][23]
Wegens databaseonderhoud zijn een aantal diensten tijdelijk niet beschikbaar op 17 februari vanaf 07:00 UTC. Er kunnen problemen optreden met nieuwe compacte links, nieuwe vertalingen, nieuwe meldingen, het toevoegen van nieuwe items aan leeslijsten en het vastleggen van automatisch teruggezonden email die niet kon worden afgeleverd. [24]
Vorige week stond in Tech News dat het IP adres van Cloud VPS en Toolforge dat deze diensten gebruiken om verbinding te maken met wiki's zal veranderen op 8 februari. Dit is uitgesteld. [25]

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8 feb 2021 18:42 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-07[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Problemen en onderhoud

Omdat recente versies van MediaWiki problemen veroorzaakten hebben de ontwikkelaars MediaWiki teruggedraaid naar een oude versie. Een aantal updates en nieuwe functies arriveren daardoor later dan verwacht. [26][27]
Wegens databaseonderhoud zijn een aantal diensten tijdelijk niet beschikbaar op 17 februari vanaf 07:00 UTC. Er kunnen problemen optreden met nieuwe compacte links, nieuwe vertalingen, nieuwe meldingen, het toevoegen van nieuwe items aan leeslijsten en het vastleggen van automatisch teruggezonden email die niet kon worden afgeleverd. [28]

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 16 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 17 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 18 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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15 feb 2021 18:56 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-08[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

De Visuele tekstverwerker gebruikt nu MediaSearch om afbeeldingen op Commons te vinden voor gebruik in artikelen. [29]
De syntax highlighter werkt nu met meer talen: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL en AMDGPU. [30]

Problemen en onderhoud

Het bewerken van een tijdlijn (wikitekst die resulteert in een afbeelding van een tijdlijn) kan resulteren in het verdwijnen van alle tekst op de tijdlijn. Dit probleem is verholpen, maar je moet tijdlijnen waarvan de tekst mist mogelijk nogmaals bewerken om de weergave weer goed te krijgen. [31]

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 23 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 24 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 25 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Er is een gebruikersgroep voor ontwikkelaars en gebruikers die interesse hebben in het werken met de Rust programmeertaal op Wikimedia wikis. Je kan je aanmelden of anderen vertellen wie jouw wiki wil verbeteren.

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23 feb 2021 01:17 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-09[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Wiki's die de Growth team tools gebruiken kunnen nu de naam van de mentor van een nieuwkomer laten zien met een variabele. Dit kan gebruikt worden in bijvoorbeeld welkomstberichten of gebruikersboxen.
Een nieuwe versie van VideoCutTool is nu beschikbaar. Hiermee kunnen uitsneden worden gemaakt, er kan in video worden geknipt, je kan het geluid uitschakelen en het beeld draaien. Deze tool is gemaakt als onderdeel van de developer outreach programma's.

Problemen en onderhoud

Er was een probleem met de wachtrij voor opdrachten (job queue) waardoor sommige functies geen aanpassingen opsloegen en MassMessage berichten vertraging opliepen. Dit had geen invloed op bewerkingen op wiki's. [32]
Met de meest recente versies van Firefox en Safari worden gebruikers standaard niet meer automatisch bij alle Wikimedia projecten ingelogd. [33]

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 2 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 3 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 4 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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1 mrt 2021 20:08 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-10[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Sectievertaling werkt nu op de Bengaalse Wikipedia waardoor het voor mobiele gebruikers makkelijker is om secties te vertalen. Deze feature komt later naar andere wiki's waarbij de focus initieel ligt op actieve wiki's met een beperkt aantal artikelen. Je kan het uittesten en feedback achterlaten.
Flagged revisions geven moderators nu het review-recht. [34]
Wanneer iemand naar een Wikipedia artikel linkt op Twitter is daarbij nu een voorbeeldweergave te zien. [35]

Problemen en onderhoud

Vele grafieken hebben JavaScript-fouten. Bewerkers van grafieken kunnen hun werk controleren in de developer console van hun browser na het bewerken. [36]

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 9 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 10 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 11 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
De Nieuwe Discussietool zal binnenkort op de meeste Wikipedia's als bètafunctie opgenomen worden bij de discussietools. Het doel is om het eenvoudiger te maken om nieuwe discussies te starten. [37]

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Er komen een aantal veranderingen om het eenvoudiger te maken om met sjablonen te werken. Een deel hiervan komt in maart op de eerste wiki's. Verdere veranderingen arriveren in juni op de eerste wiki's. Deze veranderingen zijn zowel voor mensen die sjablonen gebruiken als degenen die sjablonen aanmaken en bewerken. Verder lezen.
Reference Previews worden op 17 maart een standaardfeature op sommige wiki's. Ze zullen een instelling delen met Page Previews. Als je de voorkeur geeft aan de Reference Tooltips of Navigation-Popups gadget dan kan je die blijven gebruiken. In dat geval zullen de Reference Previews niet worden weergegeven. [38][39]
Nieuwe JavaScript-gebaseerde functies zullen niet werken in Internet Explorer 11 omdat deze browser te oud is om JavaScript uit te voeren die is geschreven naar de huidige normen. Alles wat vandaag werkt in IE11 zal voorlopig blijven werken. Verder lezen.

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8 mrt 2021 18:51 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-11[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Wiki's die deel uitmaken van het desktopverbeteringen project kunnen nu gebruik maken van een nieuwe zoekfunctie. De desktopverbeteringen en nieuwe zoekfunctie komen later op meer wiki's beschikbaar. Je kan het ook eerder testen.
Gebruikers die banners instellen of site-brede JavaScript code aanpassen zouden client error graph moeten gebruiken om te zien of hun veranderingen geen problemen veroorzaken. Verder lezen. [40]

Problemen en onderhoud

Door databaseproblemen was de Wikimedia Betacluster voor ruim een dag alleen-lezen.

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 16 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 17 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 18 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Je kan nu nog een nieuwe regel or carriage return karakter aan een persoonlijke handtekening toevoegen door middel van een sjabloon. Er is echter een voorstel om dit in de toekomst niet meer toe te staan vanwege opmaakproblemen. [41][42]
12 wikis zullen tijdelijk alleen-lezen zijn op 23 March om 06:00 (UTC). Dit zou niet langer dan 30 minuten moeten duren.
Je kan Quarry gebruiken voor SQL queries op de Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS werken vanaf 23 maart niet meer. Er komt een nieuw veld om aan te geven met welke database er verbonden moet worden. Als je denkt dat dit invloed heeft op jouw bezigheden dan kan je een bericht achterlaten op Phabricator of op Wikitech. PAWS en andere manieren om SQL queries op de Wiki Replicas te doen zullen later aangepast worden. [43]

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16 mrt 2021 00:22 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-12[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Er is een Wikipedia app voor telefoons met KaiOS. Deze toestellen hebben geen aanraakscherm waardoor navigeren alleen mogelijk is met fysieke knoppen. Er is nu een simulator waarin je kan zien hoe het eruit ziet.
De reply tool en de new discussion tool zijn nu beschikbaar als "Overleghulpmiddelen" beta feature op bijna alle wiki's met uitzondering van de Duitse Wikipedia.

Problemen en onderhoud

12 wiki's zullen tijdelijk alleen-lezen zijn op 23 maart om 06:00 (UTC). Dit zou niet langer dan 30 minuten moeten duren. Het wijzigen van wachtwoorden, aanmelden op nieuwe wiki's, wijzigen of bevestigen van mailadressen en globale hernoemingen zijn ook niet mogelijk in deze periode.

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 23 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 24 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 25 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Syntaxiskleuring gaat veranderen om de leesbaarheid te verbeteren. De eerste wiki's worden binnenkort aangepast. [44]

Toekomstige wijzigingen

Flagged revisions zullen niet langer meerdere labels zoals "tone" of "depth" hebben. Er zal ook niet meer dan één rang zijn. Dit is aangepast omdat slechts enkele wiki's deze features gebruikten en dit maakte de tool ingewikkeld om te onderhouden. [45][46]
Gadgets en user scripts in JavaScript hebben toegang tot variabelen met informatie over de huidige pagina. In 2015 is dit verplaatst van wg* naar mw.config. wg* werkt binnenkort niet meer. [47]

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22 mrt 2021 17:53 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-13[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Sommige antieke browsers werken niet goed met Wikimedia wiki's. Oude code voor browsers die voorheen ondersteund waren is verwijderd waardoor de betreffende browsers mogelijk niet goed meer werken. [48]
Meldingen van recente wijzigingen op IRC zijn verplaatst naar een nieuwe server. Tools moeten altijd verbinden met irc.wikimedia.org en niet de naam van een specifieke server. Gebruikers kunnen ook overwegen om over te stappen op de modernere EventStreams. [49]

Problemen en onderhoud

Bij het verplaatsen van een pagina die veel gebruikers op hun volglijst hebben staan kan de geschiedenis onverwacht gesplitst worden. Daarna is de pagina mogelijk ook voor enige tijd niet meer te verplaatsen. Dit komt door een probleem met job queue. (opdrachtenwachtrij) [50]
Sommige vertaalbare pagina's op Meta konden niet bewerkt worden door een fout in de vertaaltool. De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki heeft door problemen als deze vertraging opgelopen. [51][52]

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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 30 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 31 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 1 april zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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29 mrt 2021 19:30 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-14[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Gebruikers kunnen delen van een artikel inklappen zodat je erop moet klikken om het te zien. Als je nu klikt op een link naar een sectie die standaard is ingeklapt dan zal die sectie nu automatisch uitgeklapt worden en de browser scrollt dan naar de betreffende sectie. Dergelijke links werkten voorheen niet tenzij je eerst handmatig de sectie uitklapte. [53]

Wijzigingen later deze week

De citoid API gaat 2010-12-XX gebruiken in plaats van 2010-12 voor datums met een maand maar zonder gespecificeerde dag omdat 2010-12 ook is te interpreteren als 2010-2012. In het Extended Date/Time Format heet dit level 1 in plaats van level 0. [54]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 6 april uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 7 april uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 8 april zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

PAWS kan nu verbinding maken met de nieuwe Wikireplica's. Cross-database JOINS zullen vanaf 28 april niet meer werken. Er is een nieuwe manier om verbinding te maken met de databases. Tot 28 april werken beide verbindingsmethoden. Als je denkt dat dit invloed heeft op wat je doet en je hebt hulp nodig dan kan je een reactie achterlaten op Phabricator of op Wikitech.

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5 apr 2021 21:41 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-16[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Vrijwilligers beantwoorden de mail die is gericht aan de Wikimedia wiki's. Deze vrijwilligers gebruiken nu Znuny in plaats van OTRS voor deze taak. De functies en interface blijven hetzelfde. De moderators van deze vrijwilligers geven binnenkort meer informatie over de volgende stappen. [55][56]
Als je syntaxhighlighting gebruikt zie je regelnummers in de 2010 en 2017 wikitext editors tijdens het bewerken van sjablonen. Dit maakt het eenvoudiger om nieuwe regels te herkennen en om specifieke regels te bespreken. Regelnummers zullen binnenkort in alle naamruimten beschikbaar zijn. [57][58][59]
Door een technische wijziging kunnen er problemen optreden met gadgets en scripts waarvan het invoerveld voor de bewerkingssamenvatting hierop lijkt. Als het er vreemd uitziet moet mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') gebruikt worden om het er weer uit te laten zien zoals het was. [60]
De nieuwste versie van MediaWiki kwam vorige week naar Wikimedia wiki's. Er was vorige week geen Technieuws.

Wijzigingen later deze week

Er is geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie deze week.

Toekomstige wijzigingen

De gebruikersgroep oversight zal hernoemd worden naar suppress vanwege technische redenen. Dit betreft alleen de interne technische naam en heeft geen invloed op de communicatie met en over gebruikers met dit recht. Dit gaat de komende twee weken gebeuren. Je kan reageren op Phabricator als je bezwaren hebt.

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19 apr 2021 18:48 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-17[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

Je kan nu suggesties opgeven voor de waardes van parameters van een sjabloon met TemplateData. Deze suggesties zijn zichtbaar in de vorm van een lijst in de visuele tekstverwerker. Zo kunnen gebruikers makkelijker de juiste waardes vinden. [61][62][63]

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 27 april uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 28 april uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 29 april zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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26 apr 2021 23:24 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-18[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

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

Problemen en onderhoud

Door een softwarefout werkte het inhoudsvertaling hulpmiddel tijdelijk niet voor veel artikelen. [64]
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [65]

Wijzigingen later deze week

Voorbeeldweergave van referenties zal op 5 mei een standaardfeature worden op een aantal wiki's. Dit is later dan gepland door een aantal wijzigingen. Deze feature werkt ook zonder Page Previews. Het oorspronkelijke plan was om alleen een instelling te hebben die deze twee features tegelijk zou in- of uitschakelen. [66][67]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 4 mei uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 5 mei uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 6 mei zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [68]

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3 mei 2021 17:43 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-19[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 11 mei uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 12 mei uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 13 mei zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

Toekomstige wijzigingen

De Wikimedia hackathon zal plaatsvinden op 22–23 mei.

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10 mei 2021 17:10 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-20[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [69] [70] [71]
Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [72][73]
An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [74]

Changes later this week

MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [75]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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17 mei 2021 15:49 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-21[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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24 mei 2021 19:07 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-22[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [76]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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31 mei 2021 19:05 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-23[bewerken]

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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [77][78][79]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [80]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [81][82]

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7 jun 2021 22:02 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-24[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [83]
Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [84]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [85]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [86][87]

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14 jun 2021 22:26 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-25[bewerken]

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 otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [88]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [89]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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21 jun 2021 17:49 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-26[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [90]
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [91]

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [92][93]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [94][95]

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28 jun 2021 18:32 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-27[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [96]

Problems

InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [97]

Changes later this week

The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [98][99]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [100]

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5 jul 2021 19:33 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-29[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [101][102]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [103]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

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

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19 jul 2021 17:31 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-30[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference Responsieve modus inschakelen. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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26 jul 2021 23:11 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-31[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

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

Problems

Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [104][105]

Changes later this week

When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [106]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

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

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2 aug 2021 22:47 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-32[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [107]

Changes later this week

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.

Future changes

The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [108]
Vue.js will be the JavaScript framework for MediaWiki in the future. [109]

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9 aug 2021 18:20 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-33[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [110]

Problems

There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [111][112][113]

Changes later this week

A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [114]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [115]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).

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16 aug 2021 21:27 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-34[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

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

Problems

You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).

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23 aug 2021 23:58 (CEST)

Read-only reminder[bewerken]

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

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

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

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

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Bedankt!

24 aug 2021 22:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-35[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Wikinieuws:Pagina's met problemen in de verwerking van bladmuziek on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

Problems

Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [116]

Changes later this week

The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).

Future changes

You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [117]

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30 aug 2021 18:01 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-36[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [118]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [119][120]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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6 sep 2021 17:20 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-37[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [121]
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.

Problems

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [122]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [123]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [124]
The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [125][126]

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13 sep 2021 17:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-38[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [127]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [128]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [129]

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Overleghulpmiddelen" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [130]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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20 sep 2021 20:32 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-39[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

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

Problems

Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [131]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [132]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Overleghulpmiddelen" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. See the list of wikis. [133]

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28 sep 2021 00:22 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-40[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [134]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [135]
The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [136]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [137]

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4 okt 2021 18:31 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-41[bewerken]

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 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).

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

Meetings

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

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11 okt 2021 17:30 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-42[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

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

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18 okt 2021 22:53 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-43[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [138]
The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [139]

Meetings

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

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25 okt 2021 22:08 (CEST)

Tech News: 2021-44[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [140]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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1 nov 2021 21:28 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-45[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [141][142]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [143]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

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

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8 nov 2021 21:36 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-46[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [144]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [145]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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15 nov 2021 23:06 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-47[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

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

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22 nov 2021 21:02 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-48[bewerken]

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Wijzigingen later deze week

De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 30 november uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 1 december uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 2 december zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)

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29 nov 2021 22:15 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-49[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [146]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [147]

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6 dec 2021 22:59 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-50[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [148]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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13 dec 2021 23:27 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-51[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

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

Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [149]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [150]

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20 dec 2021 23:05 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-02[bewerken]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [151]
Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [152]
Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [153]
Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [154]
At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [155]
The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [156] [157]
Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [158]
The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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11 jan 2022 02:23 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-03[bewerken]

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

When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Beoordeel de link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatisch abonneren op onderwerpen". [159]
When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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17 jan 2022 20:55 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-04[bewerken]

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 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [160]

Events

You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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24 jan 2022 22:38 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-05[bewerken]

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 a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [161]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
- The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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31 jan 2022 18:42 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-06[bewerken]

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

English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [162]

Problems

A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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7 feb 2022 22:15 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-07[bewerken]

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

Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [163]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [164]

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14 feb 2022 20:18 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-08[bewerken]

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

Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [165]
At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [166]
You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [167]
There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [168][169]
Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [170]
Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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21 feb 2022 20:12 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-09[bewerken]

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

When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [171]
Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [172][173]
The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [174]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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28 feb 2022 23:59 (CET)

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Problems

There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [175]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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7 mrt 2022 22:16 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-11[bewerken]

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Recent changes

In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [176][177]

Problems

There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [178]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "Geschiedenis weergeven". [179]
Access to Speciaal:VersieVerwijderen has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [180]
On the Speciaal:Terugplaatsen pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [181]

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [182]

Events

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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14 mrt 2022 23:07 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-12[bewerken]

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New code release schedule for this week

There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [183]
The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [184]

Future changes

Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [185]

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21 mrt 2022 17:01 (CET)

Tech News: 2022-13[bewerken]

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Recent changes

There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [186][187]

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28 mrt 2022 21:54 (CEST)

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Problems

For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Speciaal:RecenteWijzigingen feed. This bug has been fixed. [188]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [189]
Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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4 apr 2022 23:01 (CEST)

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Recent changes

There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [190][191]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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11 apr 2022 21:44 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-16[bewerken]

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [192]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [193] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [194] [195] [196]

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19 apr 2022 01:11 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-17[bewerken]

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Recent changes

On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [197][198]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [199]

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26 apr 2022 00:56 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-18[bewerken]

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Recent changes

On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [200][201]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [202] [203]
If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [204]
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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2 mei 2022 21:33 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-19[bewerken]

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Recent changes

You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [205]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [206]
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [207]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [208]
Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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9 mei 2022 17:22 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-20[bewerken]

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Changes later this week

Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [209]
The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [210]

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16 mei 2022 20:58 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-21[bewerken]

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Recent changes

Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [211]
The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [212]

Problems

The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [213]
Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [214]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [215]

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24 mei 2022 02:21 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-22[bewerken]

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Recent changes

In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [216]
The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [217][218]
The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [219]
A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [220]

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30 mei 2022 22:28 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-23[bewerken]

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [221]

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7 jun 2022 04:46 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-24[bewerken]

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Recent changes

All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [222][223]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [224]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Aramaic Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [225]
The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [226][227]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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13 jun 2022 18:58 (CEST)

Tech News: 2022-25[bewerken]

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Recent changes

The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [228]
Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [229]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [230]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [231]

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20 jun 2022 22:18 (CEST)

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