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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

Dear all,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language. We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.

To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.

Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony 6 okt 2024 05:20 (CEST)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

Tech News: 2024-41

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

Weekly highlight

• Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration.

Updates for editors

• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device.
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.
• Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
• Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:)
  • a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:)
  • a WikiWoordenboek in Madurese (wikt:mad:)
  • a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:)
  • a Wikinieuws in Shan (n:shn:)

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MediaWiki message delivery 8 okt 2024 01:42 (CEST)

Wijziging op patatje oorlog

Zojuist deed een IP-bewerker deze wijziging, kan iemand beoordelen of dit klopt?

Overigens lijkt mij de hele opzet van patatje oorlog een beetje atypisch voor hier. Dit soort opsommingen is over het algemeen beter op zijn plek op Wikipedia, of bijv. het Wikikookboek. De Wikischim (overleg) 10 okt 2024 11:32 (CEST)

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MPossoupe_(WMF) 14 okt 2024 10:27 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-42

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

Updates for editors

• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode.
• WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements.
• Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed.
• Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time.

In depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 okt 2024 23:21 (CEST)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17 okt 2024 01:09 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-43

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

Weekly highlight

• The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week.
• It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "23 May 2025". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta.
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}.
• The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform.

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 okt 2024 22:52 (CEST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 22 okt 2024 13:29 (CEST)

Lege subcats in Categorie:Werkwoord

Zojuist valt me op dat er in Categorie:Werkwoord voor sommige talen geheel lege subcats staan (bijv. Categorie:Werkwoord in het Bafia). Bdijkstra ik ken jou inmiddels van elders als dé expert op dit gebied, weet jij hier raad mee? Moeten deze lege subcats maar worden weggegooid, zoals dat je-weet-wel-waar ook de gewoonte is, of is er een redelijke kans dat ze op afzienbare termijn alsnog invulling krijgen? (Dit laatste vraag ik met name aan MarcoSwart.) De Wikischim (overleg) 27 okt 2024 22:32 (CET)

In het algemeen houd ik de regel aan dat een categorie pas wordt aangemaakt als er minstens 2 pagina's zijn om haar te vullen. Maar er zijn een beperkt aantal situaties waar het doelmatiger is om categorieën op voorhand aan te maken, ook als er nog geen woorden zijn die daarin vallen. Elke natuurlijke taal heeft naamwoorden en werkwoorden, vandaar dat ik deze categorieën op voorhand heb aangemaakt. Dit maakt dat de pagina Categorie:Woorden in het Bafia een iets informatiever overzicht geeft, een vergelijkbare overweging geldt bij de audio- en IPA-weergave. Deze categorieën zijn er niet alleen voor de navigatie, maar hebben ook een huishoudelijke functie. MarcoSwart (overleg) 27 okt 2024 22:53 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-44

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

Updates for editors

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia.

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want.
• Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 okt 2024 21:56 (CET)

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

• Survey Link: Complete the Survey
• Deadline: November 10, 2024

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

• Application Link: Apply Here
• Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!

Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 29 okt 2024 06:12 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-45

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

Updates for editors

• Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts.
• Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
• The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated.

In depth

• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 nov 2024 21:50 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-46

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

Updates for editors

• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time.

Updates for technical contributors

• In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

• Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work.

Meetings and events

• 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 nov 2024 01:07 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-47

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

Updates for editors

• Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.
• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.

Updates for technical contributors

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

In depth

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

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 19 nov 2024 03:00 (CET)

Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC

Hello everyone,

The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.

This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.

Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers, Srishti 21 nov 2024 20:55 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-48

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

Updates for editors

• A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
• The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.
• Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

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

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 nov 2024 23:42 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-49

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

Updates for editors

• Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
• Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
• Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 dec 2024 23:22 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:)
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.

Updates for technical contributors

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

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 dec 2024 23:16 (CET)

Nieuw publiek?

De statistieken suggereren dat WikiWoordenboek een nieuw publiek heeft aangeboord: 11 miljoen geraadpleegde pagina's in alleen november, ruwweg het viervoudige van een normaal maandgemiddelde. Een uitsplitsing naar herkomst laat zien dat deze nieuwe klanten vooral uit Singapore (8 miljoen) en de VS (1 miljoen) komen. Een nuchtere verklaring is dat het de WMF niet meer lukt om de geautomatiseerde raadplegingen nog te onderscheiden van menselijke gebruikers. Er is kennelijk op minstens 2 plaatsen in de wereld veel interesse om onze informatie voor onderzoek te gebruiken, want het totaal van menselijke en geautomatiseerde raadplegingen is ook fors toegenomen. Het grote aantal raadplegingen uit Singapore is ook zichtbaar bij andere Wiktionary's, wat mij doet denken dat er een kunstmatige intelligentie op taalkundig gebied wordt ontwikkeld. MarcoSwart (overleg) 13 dec 2024 11:54 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-51

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
• Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
• The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

• There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 dec 2024 23:24 (CET)

Swánga̱lyiatwuki

Dat is de naam van de nog jonge Wiktionary in het Tyap. Zij hebben mij gevraagd of het mogelijk is om volgend jaar bij wijze van project vanaf januari tot maart pakweg duizend woorden uit te wisselen: Nederlandse woorden op Swánga̱lyiatwuki en spiegelbeeldig woorden uit het Tyap op WikiWoordenboek. Dat leek me een mooi plan. Als we dit een beetje degelijk willen doen, zou het wel handig zijn als we daarbij ook wat taalkundige kennis over het Tyap kunnen inschakelen. Helaas is er vrijwel geen informatie in het Nederlands beschikbaar over het Tyap en ook de Engelstalige informatie is nog te mager om bijvoorbeeld goede sjablonen en een doordachte selectie van woorden te maken.

Ik heb mijn licht opgestoken bij de Universiteit Leiden, waar die taal ook nog een witte vlek bleek te zijn. Het leek hun uiteindelijke wél een interessante stageopdracht. Impliciet houdt dat ook een zekere erkenning voor WikiWoordenboek in. In overleg met Wikimedia Nederland heb ik die vraag nu uitgezet; het is natuurlijk afwachten of er een student is die dit wil oppakken. Het gaat daarbij echt om ontsluiting van kennis over het Tyap, het toevoegen van lemma's blijven we gewoon zelf doen. Zijn er collega's die daar de komende drie maanden aan willen meedoen? MarcoSwart (overleg) 19 dec 2024 12:02 (CET)

De kersttoespraak van de koning 2024

Ieder jaar controleer ik even of de kersttoespraak van de koning wel helemaal 'wikiwoordenboek-proof' is en omgekeerd of het wikiwoordenboek geen gevoelige omissies heeft. Ik heb dit jaar geen woorden gevonden in de toespraak die niet in het wikiwoordenboek stonden. Een compliment voor de koning een compliment voor ons. Een gelukkige en gezegende kerst en een arbeidzaam 2025 gewenst uit Almelo Marcel coenders (overleg) 25 dec 2024 15:52 (CET)

Aan onze kant heb ik wel een beetje gesmokkeld door nog heel snel margarinefabriek en Vlaardingen toe te voegen. Bij de complimenten en wensen sluit ik me graag aan. MarcoSwart (overleg) 28 dec 2024 15:13 (CET)

Weet iemand een goede audio recorder voor losse woorden.

Een goed 2025 gewenst. Helaas is mijn jaar wat minder geweest door een diefstal van mijn computer. En omdat ik een domme jongen ben ben ik vergeten welk programma ik gebruikte voor het opnemen van woordjes. De naam was iets als sho... recorder en het betreft een website waarin lange lijsten met woorden in vele talen beschikbaar zijn maar ik kan het niet meer vinden Marcel coenders (overleg) 3 jan 2025 12:19 (CET)

Was het wellicht Shtooka recorder van dit project? MarcoSwart (overleg) 4 jan 2025 00:01 (CET)

Bedankt tja zaken die je iedere dag gebruikt vergeet je en zie je niet meer Marcel coenders (overleg) 4 jan 2025 03:11 (CET)

Het lijkt me vreselijk om mee te maken, dus alles wat ik kan doen om te helpen is meer dan graag gedaan. Vergeten is overigens heel goed voor onze geestelijke gezondheid: ruimte maken voor nieuwe gedachten betekent dat je leeft. MarcoSwart (overleg) 5 jan 2025 15:33 (CET)

Het was ook vreselijk maar goed heb mijn "werkprogrammatuur" geherprogrammeerd in Python met als bijkomend voordeel dat ik geen eindeloze lijsten met meer woorden maak die vallen onder de categorie "werk in uitvoering" en "woorden met ontbrekende definitie". Dus tja van alles waar je niet aan dood gaat wordt je sterker van. Maar werken in de trein doe ik niet meer ik heb nu een grotere laptop gekocht. Bij de pakken neer zitten, wanhopen ect mag als opa natuurlijk nooit. Altijd het goede voorbeeld geven. Verdrietig zijn mag natuurlijk wel. Marcel coenders (overleg) 12 jan 2025 09:49 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-03

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

Weekly highlight

• The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

• On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia)
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:)
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
• Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
• For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
• Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 jan 2025 02:42 (CET)

Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!

Dear All,

We’re happy to announce the launch of Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.

This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.

• Topic: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Campaign Launch
• When: Jan 19, 2025
• Time: 16:00 Universal Time UTC and runs throughout Ramadan (starting February 25, 2025).
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88420056597?pwd=NdrpqIhrwAVPeWB8FNb258n7qngqqo.1
• Zoom meeting hosted by Wikimedia Bangladesh

To get started, visit the campaign page for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.

Add your community here, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.

Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.

Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.

Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!

For the International Team 16 jan 2025 13:08 (CET)

Afgekeurde woorden

Worden woorden gemarkeerd die wel gebruikt worden maar niet echt steek houden op grammaticaal of inhoudelijk vlak, zoals in de Engelse Wiktionary ("proscribed")? M!dgard (overleg) 19 jan 2025 14:22 (CET)

Zelfs de officiële Woordenlijst van de Nederlandse taal bevat heel wat woorden waar ik grammaticaal of inhoudelijk bezwaar tegen kan aanvoeren. Het zou vermoedelijk al snel nogal subjectief kunnen worden welke woorden wel of niet gemarkeerd gaan worden. Dat is dan weer niet zo nuttig voor onze lezers. Als er algemeen betrouwbaar geachte bronnen zijn die op een neutrale toon bezwaren tegen een bepaald woord beschrijven, kan daar onder Opmerkingen naar worden verwezen. Verder zou ik niet willen gaan. MarcoSwart (overleg) 20 jan 2025 13:40 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-04

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

Updates for editors

• Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
• On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 jan 2025 02:36 (CET)

Palindromen

Traditioneel gebruikten we een contextlabel voor het markeren van een palindroom. Dit is wat verwarrend, omdat het gaat om een eigenschap van het letterbeeld van een woord, dat helemaal losstaat van de betekenis(sen) ervan: het is gewoon geen context. Gevolgd hiervan is dat deze markering uiterst wisselvallig werd gebruikt:

1. alleen vermeld bij de eerste betekenis
2. herhaling bij elke betekenis (bij meerdere betekenissen)
3. geplaatst naast het eerste vetgedrukte trefwoord
4. herhaling bij elk vetgedrukt trefwoord (bij meerdere woordsoorten)
5. vermelding bij etymologie
6. aparte vermelding onder een kopje opmerkingen
7. herhaling bij sommige betekenissen en/of trefwoorden
8. geheel weglaten, uit onwetendheid, onzekerheid of doordat de betekenisomschrijvingen uit sjablonen komen die geen ruimte laten voor contextlabels.

Het ontbreken van een zichtbare vermelding wordt soms weer "opgelost" door direct een categorie aan het lemma toe te voegen met [[Categorie:Palindroom in het ...]]. Deze toevoeging kan ook weer op allerlei plaatsen gebeuren, wat het beheer van onze informatie nog ingewikkelder maakt.

Bij sommige betekenissen droeg dit contextlabel ook bij aan "labeldrukte", waarbij een lezer eerst een hele reeks labels moet lezen, voordat de eigenlijke betekenis volgt. Dit is extra storend bij relatief eenvoudige woorden, helemaal omdat "palindroom" zelf nu eenmaal een minder bekend begrip is. WikiWoordenboek heeft de uitdaging dat het een algemeen publiek wil bedienen, uiteenlopend van mensen die nog bezig zijn Nederlands te leren, tot liefhebbers die het naadje van de kous willen weten. In die situatie is het een goed ontwerpprincipe om te beginnen met de basale gegevens en de informatie voor liefhebbers wat later in het lemma te vermelden.

Om die laatste reden heb ik de informatie over prevalentie voorheen bewust aan het eind van lemma's geplaatst. Andere informatie die niet specifiek bij een bepaalde woordsoort of betekenis hoort (uitspraak, afbreking) bieden we juist helemaal aan het begin aan, maar dat zijn echte basisgegevens. Dat een woord een palindroom is, is meer een bijzonderheid van het woordbeeld voor liefhebbers van taalfeitjes. Sommige bronnen beschouwen het palindroom als een specifiek soort anagram. Om die reden heb ik de vermelding dat een woord een palindroom is nu stelselmatig vorm gegeven onder dat kopje ({{-ana-}} met een aangepaste versie van {{palindroom}}. Dat kopje hoort in deze benadering dan bijna aan het eind van een taalsectie te komen, net voor eventuele kopjes als {{-preval-}}, {{-info-}} en {{refs}}.

Mij viel bij dit alles op dat we ooit hebben afgesproken om palindromen van woorden met lengte 1 of 2 niet te markeren. Voor de categorieën die de palindromen in een bepaalde taal laten zien, lijkt me dat eigenlijk jammer. Het is een overzichtelijke klus om alle taalsecties op een pagina of 50 van een vermelding te voorzien.

Hetzelfde geldt voor het meenemen van palindromen in de sectie "universeel taalgebruik". Als categorie op zichzelf zijn deze tamelijk oninteressant, maar uiteraard vormen ze per definitie een onderdeel van de palindromen in elke taal. We zouden daarom in elke categorie "Palindroom in het ..." een linkje naar die categorie kunnen opnemen.

Normaal gesproken zou ik voor alle veranderingen als deze eerst een voorstel voorleggen en daarna pas veranderingen doorvoeren. In dit geval leverde het eerste onderzoek voor zo'n voorstel al zo'n complexiteit op, dat het maken van het complete voorstel meer werk dreigde te worden dan het invoeren of terugdraaien van de verandering voor wat betreft de markering. Om die reden heb ik dit onderdeel al uitgevoerd. Bijkomend voordeel van deze aanpak is dat er zo ook vele tientallen ontbrekende palindromen aan de categorieën zijn toegevoegd. Dit neemt niet weg dat het gewenste eindresultaat uiteraard nog steeds een voorstel is: als overleg hier tot andere inzichten leidt, kan ook de gekozen vorm van vermelden worden aangepast of ongedaan worden gemaakt. Hieronder som ik de onderdelen van het voorstel nog eens op, zodat er eenvoudiger op kan worden gereageerd.

1. De kopjes {{-ana-}}, {{-preval-}}, {{-info-}} en {{refs}} worden voor zover aanwezig in die volgorde aan het eind van een taalsectie geplaatst.
2. Palindromen worden met het nieuwe {{palindroom}} onder het kopje {{-ana-}} vermeldt; dat wil dus zeggen: maar één keer in elke taalsectie op een pagina.
3. (nog te doen) Ook woorden met een lengte van 1 of 2 letters worden als palindroom gemarkeerd.
4. (nog te doen) Ook woorden in het universeel taalgebruik kunnen als palindroom worden gemarkeerd; de beschrijving van categorieën met palindromen per taal wordt uitgebreid met een linkje naar de categorie met palindromen in het universeel taalgebruik.

Mijn idee is om nu eerst 4 weken de reacties en discussie af te wachten en dan op basis daarvan verder te gaan. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 22 jan 2025 14:06 (CET)

Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines

My apologies for writing in English. Help met het vertalen in uw taal.

I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review. Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 24 jan 2025 02:12 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-05

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

Weekly highlight

• Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

• iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
• Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Speciaal:RecenteWijzigingen and Speciaal:NieuwePaginas.
• Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.
• Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 27 jan 2025 23:14 (CET)

Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon

My apologies for writing in English. Help met het vertalen in uw taal.

This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through the end of day, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review. Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.

Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 3 feb 2025 01:49 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-06

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

Updates for editors

• Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons. You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button. Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
• Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
  • (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
  • (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:)
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 feb 2025 01:09 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-07

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

Weekly highlight

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

Updates for editors

• The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346.
• As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
• Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Speciaal:CentraalAanmelden page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.
• The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers.
• As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions.

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 11 feb 2025 01:12 (CET)

Migration to Parsoid

Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the Parser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your Wiktionary. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.

If this transition disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation.

There is more information about our roll-out strategy available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.

To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.

Help met het vertalen in uw taal

C. Scott Ananian (Parsoid technical lead) 12 feb 2025 21:48 (CET)

Lemma's over kleuren

Voor WikiWoordenboek heeft voorgaand bericht vermoedelijk geen merkbare gevolgen, omdat we storende afwijkingen van html5 in wikitext al lange tijd vrijwel volledig hebben opgelost. Een prettig neveneffect is dat ook de problemen die er nog waren om de donkere modus goed te laten werken nu wat overzichtelijker zijn geworden. Ik heb daarvan gisteren iets meer dan de helft opgeruimd. Een volgende grote stap is het aanpassen van de navigatiesjablonen voor kleuren. Mijn plan is om bij deze gelegenheid meerdere verbeteringen ineens door te voeren:

1. De sjablonen geschikt maken voor de donkere modus.
2. De sjablonen geschikt maken voor weergave op mobieltjes (ze passen zich nu niet aan aan de breedte van het scherm).
3. Het nieuwe sjabloon op de logische plaats (onder het kopje {{-rel-}} plaatsen.
4. Op lemma's over een kleur die eenvormig laten zien: niet als een los plaatje, maar als onderdeel van de betekenisomschrijving; een beetje zoals op de Engelse Wiktionary.

Het resultaat zou er uit gaan zien zoals nu op donkerblauw als voorbeeld wordt getoond. De daar gebruikte sjablonen zijn nog in ontwikkeling, het doel is op dit moment vooral om reacties op de weergave te krijgen. MarcoSwart (overleg) 14 feb 2025 17:06 (CET)

Wij hebben de Nederlandse namen van RAL-kleuren in het verleden al aangepast aan de spellingregels. Dat lijkt me correct, omdat wij strikt genomen woorden beschrijven die naar die namen verwijzen. Die namen hebben een hoofdletter en daarvoor zou het donorbeginsel ook doorslaggevend horen te zijn, maar de gewone woorden in het taalgebruikt zijn soortnamen voor kleuren die gewoon de spellingregels volgen. Dat is te meer van belang omdat de vertalers van de RAL-namen die wat wispelturig hebben toegepast.

Vanuit onze benadering lijken mij nog twee aanpassingen wenselijk.

1. In het verleden zijn naast de correct gespelde varianten zuiver groen, zuiver oranje, zuiver rood en zuiver wit ook de aaneengeschreven varianten zuivergroen, zuiverrood en zuiverwit opgenomen (bij "Zuiver oranje" bevatte de officiële naam al een spatie conform spellingregel 6.).
2. Naast briljant lichtoranje en briljant lichtrood (ook met spatie in de officiële naam) en briljant oranje (gecorrigeerde vorm op WikiWoordenboek), zou ik ook in briljantblauw, briljantgeel, briljantgroen en briljantrood. Deze vorm suggereert een direct verband met de edelsteen, maar het gaat hier vooral om het bijvoeglijk naamwoord "stralend". Dit heeft ook het voordeel dat er onderscheid is met de kleurstof "briljantblauw" (een leenvertaling) die net een andere tint heeft.

Omdat dit moet worden meegenomen in de aanpassing van het sjabloon heeft het wel wat meer voeten in de aarde om uit te voeren. Daarom leg ik het hier eerst een weekje voor en ga dan pas aan de hand van eventuele reacties en discussie verder. MarcoSwart (overleg) 18 feb 2025 17:11 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-08

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

Weekly highlight

• Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Speciaal:Thuispagina for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Speciaal:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements

• Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements.
• You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.
• When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
• The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
• A new filter has been added to the Speciaal:MassaalVerwijderen tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Speciaal:MassaalVerwijderen tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again.

Updates for technical contributors

• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page.
• Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17 feb 2025 22:16 (CET)

De komende Language Community Meeting (28 februari 2025, 14:00 UTC) en de Nieuwsbrief.

Dag allemaal!

We zijn blij om te kunnen aankondigen dat de volgende Language Community Meeting binnenkort plaatsvindt, op 28 februari, om 14:00 UTC! Als je wilt meedoen, schrijf je dan eenvoudig in op de wiki pagina.

Het is een bijeenkomst die wordt vormgegeven door de deelnemers. We delen updates over projecten die met taal samenhangen, bespreken technische problemen in de taalwiki's en werken samen aan oplossingen. In onze vorige bijeenkomst kwamen onderwerpen aan de orde zoals het ontwikkelen van taal-toetsenborden, het ontwikkelen van de More-talige Wikipedia en updates vanuit de taalondersteunings-track van Wiki Indaba.

Heb jij een onderwerp om te delen? Of het nu een technische update is vanuit jouw project, een probleem waarvoor je hulp nodig hebt, of een verzoek om ondersteuning voor een vertaling... we willen het graag van jou horen! Voel je daarom vrij om te antwoorden op dit bericht of om agendapunten toe te voegen aan dit document.

We willen ook graag de aandacht vestigen op de zesde editie van de Language & Internationalization newsletter (januari 2025). Deze is hier beschikbaar: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. Deze nieuwsbrief geeft updates van het vierde kwartaal van 2024: de ontwikkeling van nieuwe functies, verbeteringen in verschillende taal-gerelateerde technische projecten en inspanningen voor ondersteuning, details over bijeenkomsten van de gemeenschappen en ideeën om aan projecten bij te dragen. Als je deze updates wilt ontvangen, dan kan je je inschrijven op de nieuwsbrief op deze wiki-pagina: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.

We kijken uit naar jouw ideeën en naar jouw deelname aan de language community meeting. Tot ziens op 28 februari!

MediaWiki message delivery 22 feb 2025 09:30 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-09

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

Updates for editors

• Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Speciaal:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.
• The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:)
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 feb 2025 01:41 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-10

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

Updates for editors

• All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Volledige pagina bewerken" link is accessible from the "Meer" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting.
• Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
• When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads. In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.
• When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights, and respects cascading protection.
• When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.
• The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
• Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (w:syl:)
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 mrt 2025 03:30 (CET)

Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment

My apologies for writing in English. Help met het vertalen in uw taal.

I am writing to you to let you know that proposed changes to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter are open for review. You can provide feedback on suggested changes through the end of day on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes. Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) 7 mrt 2025 19:52 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-11

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

Updates for editors

• Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.
• The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
• An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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MediaWiki message delivery 11 mrt 2025 00:09 (CET)

Inrichting van Categorie:Werkwoord van de vijfde vervoeging in het Latijn

Een vraag over deze cat.: wat is het precieze idee achter de inrichting hiervan? Er staan nu zowel deponente (in de inifitief eindigend -ri) als niet-deponente ( (in de inifitief eindigend -re) ) werkwoorden in. Bovendien lijkt de cat. inhoudelijk grotendeels dubbelop met de vier andere cats naar vervoeging in Categorie:Werkwoord in het Latijn.

Op EN-wiktionary lijkt geen overeenkomende cat. hiervan te bestaan; dezelfde werkwoorden die hier in Categorie:Werkwoord van de vijfde vervoeging in het Latijn zijn ondergebracht, worden daar bij de derde of vierde vervoeging ingedeeld.

Hoe willen we hier nu precies mee verder? Is de "vijfde vervoeging"-cat. hier eigenlijk echt nodig? De Wikischim (overleg) 12 mrt 2025 12:58 (CET)

Deponente werkwoorden komen nu eenmaal in verschillende vervoegingen voor; ik zie niet waarom dat speciaal bij de vijfde vervoeging een probleem zou zijn. Wat we hier beschrijven als de vijfde vervoeging heb ik vroeger geleerd als de gemengde vervoeging. Als je de benadering van de Engelstalige collega's volgt, maak je binnen de derde of vierde vervoeging weer een onderscheid. Het is dus vooral een verschil in presentatie van een onderverdeling die hoe dan ook bestaat. De Nederlandstalige Wikipedia gaat uit van 5 vervoegingen. Op dit moment zijn ook onze vervoegingssjablonen gebaseerd op het onderscheid van een vijfde vervoeging. Daardoor zou een verandering nog best een karwei worden. MarcoSwart (overleg) 15 mrt 2025 23:46 (CET)

Uw wiki zal binnenkort in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te gebruiken zijn

Lees dit in een andere taal • Help met het vertalen in uw taal

De Wikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.

Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op 19 maart. De test zal beginnen om 14:00 UTC.

Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen in MediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.

Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt. Deze banner blijft zichtbaar tot het einde van de operatie.

U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.

• U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 19 maart 2025.
• Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.

Andere effecten:

• Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
• We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
• GitLab zal ongeveer 90 minuten onbereikbaar zijn.

Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt de planning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd.

Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.

MediaWiki message delivery 15 mrt 2025 00:15 (CET)

Sjabloon:-info-

Even een vraag over Sjabloon:-info-. Zou het mogelijk zijn om de parameters hiervan zo aan te passen dat je bij een term desgewenst naar twee of drie toepasselijke WP-artikelen kunt linken, zonder dat je het sjabloon daarvoor helemaal moet kopiëren? De enige andere optie is momenteel: in al deze gevallen steevast naar de betreffende DP op Wikipedia linken. Om meerdere redenen is dat echter niet altijd even wenselijk. De DP's aldaar zijn soms helemaal vol gezet met afgeleide betekenissen en eigennamen die voor hier verder totaal niet van belang zijn, soms zijn ze ook moeilijk leesbaar. Mij lijkt het eigenlijk onnodig om daar vanaf dit project nog eens speciaal heen te linken. Wellicht nog belangrijker is dat daardoor de ècht zinvolle termen "verdrinken".

Volgens mij zijn er best wat pagina's waarop dit een uitkomst kan bieden. De Wikischim (overleg) 17 mrt 2025 22:18 (CET)

Het lastige kan hier zijn dat mensen een woordenboek op verschillende manieren gebruiken. Voor een lezer die vooral belangstelling heeft voor een specifieke betekenis is een verwijzing naar de inhoudelijk meest relevante pagina inderdaad het handigst. Maar er zijn ook lezers die vanuit belangstelling voor de vorm van het woord, liever de breedte van mogelijke betekenissen willen verkennen. Een link naar een doorverwijspagina is dan juist superieur en kan ook van waarde zijn als een specifieke betekenis bij ons nog ontbreekt.

Een praktische oplossing is ook mogelijk zonder {{-info-}} nog ingewikkelder te maken, door gewoon regels met het sjabloon {{Tl|w|nl|...|...} toe te voegen. Ik heb dat op vlucht bij wijze van illustratie gedaan. Dit heeft ook het voordeel dat het met een willekeurig groot aantal betekenissen blijft werken. MarcoSwart (overleg) 21 mrt 2025 09:43 (CET)

Ter verhoging van het gebruiksgemak heb ik aan {{w}} als mogelijke waarde van parameter 3 het dubbele aanhalingsteken toegevoegd. Dit kan worden gebruikt als de linknaam niet identiek moet zijn aan de paginanaam hier, maar aan de paginanaam op Wikipedia. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 21 mrt 2025 10:26 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-12

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

Weekly highlight

• Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
• On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
• The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
• Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator.
• The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
• The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 mrt 2025 00:48 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-13

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

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Speciale pagina's listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.
• The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
• Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 24 mrt 2025 23:42 (CET)

Grootschalig interne links in voorbeeldzinnen?

Zojuist zie ik o.a. deze en dit.

Vraag: vinden anderen het wenselijk om ook in de voorbeeldzinnen op grote schaal interne links toe te voegen (al dan niet naar WP)? Naar mijn idee voegt het in de meeste gevallen niets wezenlijks toe. Het is ook niet waar voorbeeldzinnen in de eerste plaats voor bedoeld zijn. Ook is het niet erg bevorderlijk voor de leesbaarheid, het echte kernwoord "sneeuwt onder" denk ik. De Wikischim (overleg) 2 apr 2025 10:50 (CEST)

Je hebt wel een punt, denk ik. Bij een encyclopedie ligt de nadruk op het geven van informatie over een onderwerp en daarvoor zijn hyperlinks binnen de tekst een goed instrument. In een woordenboek gaat het ook om de morfologische eigenschappen van een woord en dan is het al gauw zo dat je vrijwel de hele tekst blauw kan maken.

Een doelstelling van dit project is dat we informatie aanbieden die weer hergebruikt kan worden. Bij een woordenboek gaat het dan vaak om de betekenisomschrijving en de voorbeeldzinnen. Het toepassen van links in die kernteksten kan juist belemmerend werken op dat hergebruik. Goede betekenisomschrijvingen en voorbeeldzinnen horen volgens mij op zichzelf duidelijk te zijn en niet afhankelijk van links.

Alle links naar woorden die sterk verband houden met het trefwoord kunnen beter onder het toepasselijke kopje worden vermeld. Andere links vormen dan inderdaad eerder een afleiding dan een verduidelijking. MarcoSwart (overleg) 2 apr 2025 14:11 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-14

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

Updates for editors

• The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
• Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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MediaWiki message delivery 1 apr 2025 02:05 (CEST)

Compatibility of the Citeer TypVla template with Parsoid

Dear contributors to WikiWoordenboek,

As announced a few weeks ago, Parsoid has been turned on as the default article renderer on your Wiktionary. Unfortunately, in the meantime, we have discovered a compatibility issue with the citeer TypVla template; this issue is documented in task T386713 on Phabricator.

citeer TypVla generates a citation name based on the following string: Typisch Vlaams. 4000 woorden en uitdrukkingen-{{{pagina|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}. Citations that link to the same page are on occasion differentiated by the use of spaces in the page name. This is the case on gaan with the following markup: {{citeer TypVla|Als het aan Vereecke ligt, komt er nog een veertigste, of zelfs vijftigste editie van de Night of the Proms. 'Het kan, maar we beseffen dat dat niet vanzelf '''gaat gaan'''.'||De morgen|pagina=p.  178 kol. 2}} {{citeer TypVla|Het kan best zijn dat we het nooit echt '''gaan''' weten.||Het Laatste Nieuws|pagina=p. 178 kol. 2}} (note the double space between p. and 178 in the first citation.)

While this works with the legacy version of the parser, this is more by accident than by explicit design; this is currently not supported by Parsoid, which considers both references to be conflicting, because they have the same name and different content. This is visible on the difference between https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaan?useparsoid=1 (the new default rendering), which displays errors in the references block, and https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaan?useparsoid=0 (the old default rendering), which does not. We would advise a modification of the citeer TypVla template to avoid relying on spaces in the page number to make the difference between different references - we would suggest the addition of an optional parameter to enable the users to force differentiation if it is needed.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that the suggested modification will suit your purposes.

Best regards,

Isabelle, for the Content Transform team IHurbainPalatin (WMF) (overleg) 1 apr 2025 10:46 (CEST)

Instead of adding more parameters, I have opted to use the template name plus the citation itself also as the value for the name attribute. It is highly unlikely that this template will quote the same text on the same page twice. In fact, the resulting error would probably point to content that is undesirable for other reasons too. MarcoSwart (overleg) 2 apr 2025 14:40 (CEST)

Fantastic! Thank you very much for the quick action! IHurbainPalatin (WMF) (overleg) 3 apr 2025 09:16 (CEST)

Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted

The proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the U4C Charter are now on Meta-wiki for community notice in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on the wiki page for the election soon.

Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

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-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 4 apr 2025 04:05 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-15

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

Updates for editors

• From now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
• The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.

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MediaWiki message delivery 7 apr 2025 20:52 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-16

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

Weekly highlight

• Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.
• File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
• To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.
• "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
• On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
• The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 15 apr 2025 02:24 (CEST)

Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

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In cooperation with the U4C -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17 apr 2025 02:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-17

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

Updates for editors

• Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• A new type of lint error has been created: Lege koppen (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings and events

• The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 apr 2025 23:00 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-18

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

Updates for editors

• Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
• Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

Meetings and events

• The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
• The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 apr 2025 21:31 (CEST)

Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C --

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 29 apr 2025 05:42 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-19

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

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

• For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
  • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
  • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Speciaal:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
• Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 mei 2025 02:14 (CEST)

We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

(Apologies for posting in English)

Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.

As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.

After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.

The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.

If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.

Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 6 mei 2025 17:08 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-20

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

Weekly highlight

• The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
• Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
• The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
• The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

Meetings and events

• The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
• The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 13 mei 2025 00:37 (CEST)

Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)

The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is available on Meta-wiki.

You may now submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.

If you have any questions, you can ask on the discussion page for the election. -- in cooperation with the U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (overleg) 16 mei 2025 00:08 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-21

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

Weekly highlight

• The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

• From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
• Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Speciaal:Blokkeren?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information.
• Later this week, the Speciaal:SpecialePaginas listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.
• The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Speciaal:Blokkeren may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page.
• The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.
• User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20 mei 2025 01:12 (CEST)

GLAM Wiki 2025 in Lissabon 30-10 tot 1-11-2025: WMNL reisbeurzen beschikbaar - deadline 27 mei

Van 30 oktober tot 1 november vindt GLAM Wiki 2025, een internationale conferentie gewijd aan de samenwerking tussen Wikimedia en culturele instellingen (GLAM: Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) plaats in Lissabon, Portugal.
GLAM Wiki 2025 wordt georganiseerd door Wikimedia Portugal in samenwerking met Wiki Editoras Lx. De conferentie biedt een platform voor uitwisseling van expertise, het versterken van samenwerkingen en het ontwikkelen van duurzame strategieën voor open culturele kennis. De conferentie is bedoeld voor Wikimedianen, erfgoedprofessionals, bibliothecarissen, conservatoren, onderzoekers en andere geïnteresseerden in open toegang tot cultuur en kennis. Op het programma staan lezingen, panelgesprekken, workshops en netwerkmomenten die gericht zijn op actuele thema’s als digitale collecties, inclusiviteit, open licenties, en de rol van Wikimedia binnen cultureel erfgoed. Meer informatie: GLAM Wiki 2025 op Meta

Lijkt het je interessant om deel te nemen?
WMNL heeft 4 volledige reisbeurzen beschikbaar voor Wikimedianen of medewerkers van erfgoedinstellingen. Een volledige beurs is maximaal € 1.076. Het is ook mogelijk een beurs aan te vragen voor een deel van de kosten. Aanvragen van een beurs kan tot 27 mei door het invullen van dit formulier. Je hoort dan uiterlijk 1 juni of je aanvraag is toegekend. We realiseren ons dat dit wat kort dag is, maar we wilden mensen ook nog in de gelegenheid stellen om indien nodig een beurs aan te kunnen vragen via de centrale aanvraagprocedure (deadline 7 juni) en daarvoor moesten aanvraagrondes bij affiliates afgerond zijn.

Om in aanmerking te komen, hoef je geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland. Ons streven is om één beurs toe te kennen aan iemand die voor het eerst deelneemt aan de GLAM Wiki conferentie.

Heb je vragen over de conferentie, kijk dan op de projectpagina van de organisatie. Voor vragen over de beursaanvraag neem je contact op met Michelle van Lanschot (vanlanschotwikimedia.nl.

MichellevL (WMNL) (overleg) 20 mei 2025 10:59 (CEST)

RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)

(Apologies for posting in English, if this is not your first language)

Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.

We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content. Thank you in advance! -- Sannita (WMF) (overleg) 22 mei 2025 17:27 (CEST)