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Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at
WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
An
RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to
TFAs.
Technical news
IP addresses of unregistered users are to
be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how
IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed
at the talk page.
Arbitration
The community authorised
COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the
COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a
motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.
Recent changes
AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses
JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.
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Problems
InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to
Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org.
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Changes later this week
The tool to
find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some Wikimedia wikis use
Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
The tool to
find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year.
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Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (
calendar).
Future changes
How media is structured in the
parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can
read more. You can test it on
Testwiki or
Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain
tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can
read more.
Hi there, I find it difficult to understand where I should report bugs, as there are apparently several operators, so please direct this to the right place. The helper bot seems to get the formatting of its edit summary wrong in the rare case when a range-partiallyblocked IP gets blocked, see
here. Ping to @
HighInBC who might also care. —
Kusma (
talk)
16:29, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
Good catch. My development on the bot stopped before range blocks were a thing. I am glad that the development of the bot has continued beyond me. I am not sure who wrote the code responsible for this bug. My current environment is a bit noisy and I am having difficulty achieving the focus I need to concentrate on coding problems at the moment.
HighInBCNeed help? Just ask.21:58, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
A
new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (
calendar).
Future changes
If you use the
Monobook skin you can choose to switch off
responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new
preferenceEnable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can
read more.