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Tech News (2020, week 49)

by Johan Jonsson

3?years, 6?months

Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC

by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Hi Everyone! The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award > will happen online on Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1]. The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details and links soon. Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers do for the Wikimedia communities. We hope to see you there! Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020 [^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PST, 18:00 CEST, 22:30 IST. More timezones in timeanddate.com < https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17 > [image: Coolest_Tool_Award_2020_event_date.png] -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation

3?years, 6?months

Final Undeployment of Graphoid

by Joseph Seddon

As we announced back in March, as part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering will take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do not have or have disabled JavaScript. Unfortunately, this was going to be a consequence of retiring Graphoid in order to upgrade other parts of the infrastructure. The vast majority of wikis have operated without server side rendering through this year and now we are simply looking to make this change for the last remaining projects and will be completed by the end of this calendaryear. This decision was not taken lightly (see [2] for some of the history) and we are still hoping to re-enable server-side graph rendering in the future, but any such rendering would be with a totally new service [3], as maintaining the previous Graphoid service was untenable. The server graphoid sits on is already well past its service life, and is running old unmaintained software. In short, it is likely to fail one way or another, possibly causing significant problems if we take no action. The graph extension has been provisioned to enable editor defined static fallback images alongside client side rendering. [4] 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124254 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211881 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249419 4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph#User_defined_fallback -- Seddon *Senior Community Relations Specialist* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*

3?years, 6?months

Tech News (2020, week 48)

by Johan Jonsson

3?years, 6?months

Tech News (2020, week 47)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/47 >. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next >. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute >. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ????????????????????????????? Other languages: Bahasa Indonesia < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/id > ? ?British English < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/en-gb > ? ?Deutsch < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/de > ? ?*English* ? ? Nederlands < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/nl > ? ?espanol < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/es > ? ?francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/fr > ? ?italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/it > ? ?magyar < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/hu > ? ?polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/pl > ? ?svenska < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/sv > ? ??e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/cs > ? ?русский < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/ru > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/uk > ? ?????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/he > ? ???????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/ar > ? ?????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/fa > ? ?中文 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/zh > ? ?日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/47/ja > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/47 > are available. *Recent changes* - Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode >. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Opera… > . [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991 >[2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145 > *Changes later this week* - If you merged two pages in a namespace < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces > where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93469 > - [image: Recurrent item] The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.18 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap >). *Future changes* - The Community Wishlist Survey < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve… > is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech > will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December. *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by Tech News writers < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers > and posted by bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/47 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.*

3?years, 7?months

Update to ICU Unicode library

by Benoit Evellin (Trizek)

Bonjour Starting on November 16, 2020 the Wikimedia Foundation Operations team will migrate the servers running the MediaWiki application servers to a new release of the ICU < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_Unicode > Unicode library (from version 57 to 63). This unblocks some future work on upgrading the servers to a new Operating System release and will also allow the use of improved internationalisation in the future (as wikis will then be able to use features introduced by the new ICU release such as new collation definitions, and allows us to use a more recent version of Unicode in MediaWiki). This migration will cause some unavoidable temporary user-visible impact: *The sorting of some category pages will be distorted* ? all pages which have been updated with the new software version will use the new sorting while untouched pages still use the old sorting. As such, Ops need to run a maintenance script to update the sorting for old entries. *The distortions may last from a few hours* (on medium-sized wikis), up to *a day* (on the largest wikis), and *a few days* on English Wikipedia. The start-time will depend upon when the migration script reaches each wiki. The detailed list and the task for the technical implementation is at *T264991* < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991 >. This operation is announced in the next issues of Tech News < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News >. Please share this message where it needs to be posted! Thank you, Benoit -- Benoit Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation < https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >

3?years, 7?months

Community Wishlist Survey: a request for translation

by Szymon Grabarczuk

Hello! Next Monday, the Community Wishlist Survey 2021 will begin. I'd like to ask you to finish and review the translation of the message which will be sent out to the village pumps: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Invitation When there's an update regarding the CWS translations, I'll put it in this very thread. This way, hopefully, it will be easily noticeable. Thank you! Kind regards, Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation < https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >

3?years, 7?months

Tech News (2020, week 46)

by Johan Jonsson

3?years, 7?months

Can you translate this sentence please?

by Amir Sarabadani

Hello, I'm rewording the browser security message a bit and I need translation of this sentence to these languages: zh, es, ja, sv, hi "Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia are getting more secure. You are using an old web browser that will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects in the future. Please update your device or contact your IT administrator." (For more information see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/637850 ) Thank you so much! -- Amir (he/him)

3?years, 7?months

Reference Previews: Search for wikis for early deployment

by Michael Schonitzer

Hello, A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling it by default for all users including readers. New features like this are deployed in multiple batches, to ensure everything runs smoothly. Therefore, we are currently looking for a few small or medium-sized wikis that are interested in being among the first to gain the new feature. If your community is interested, please reach out to me on my discussion page or via email. The feature shows you references in a small popup when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. The feature is part of the MediaWiki Popups extension [2], which is also used for the Page Previews feature [3]. Both features can be turned on and off together by the user. Several wikis have a gadget called “RefTooltips” to provide the same functionality [4]. The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is used. This way, it is up to the users and communities to decide if they want to disable the gadget in favor of the new feature. Reference Previews originated from a wish from the German-speaking wiki community and was developed collaboratively by Wikimedia Deutschland the Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project page.[1] For the Technical Wishes team, Michael Schonitzer 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews 2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Popups 3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews 4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234204#6244041 -- *M. F. Schonitzer* Community Communication Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren konnen. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland ? Gesellschaft zur Forderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnutzig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fur Korperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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