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Make working with templates easier: Several improvements coming to all wikis soon.

by Johanna Strodt

Hi everyone, In 2019, the German-speaking wikis selected “Make working with templates easier” as the focus area of Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes project. Since then, our team has made improvements in different areas, to help template creators as well as users of the wikitext editor and VisualEditor. Our work on this focus area is coming to an end, so I’d like to summarize what happened and lay out the next steps: Two changes from our Templates project have been available on all* wikis for a while already: - A new attribute “suggested values” was introduced to help you clarify what values a parameter may expect. [1] - Line numbers are shown in the “Template” namespace when syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension) is turned on. [2] A few wikis have these line numbers in _all_ namespaces. If you want this for your wiki as well, please reach out to us. Several other changes were deployed to a small group in the past months. A big thanks to Catalan, Turkish, Greek, Malay, Twi, French, Hungarian, Hebrew, Finnish, Dagbani and German Wikipedia, to English Wikivoyage and Nauruan Wiktionary as well as Wikitech wiki for testing these changes and giving feedback to help us improve these projects. These changes are now coming to more wikis: - Finding and inserting templates will become easier with an improved search (in the TemplateWizard & in the template dialog of VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode). [3] - In VisualEditor, you’ll be able to remove a template from a page via the context menu, just like removing a table or an image. [4] - In VisualEditor, the template dialog will become bigger and descriptions will be more visible. [5] - When using syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension)*, matching brackets will be highlighted [6] and the color scheme will be updated for better readability [7]. The planned deployment date for all of these changes is March 9 (and March 16 on English Wikipedia). A few weeks later, we’ll be deploying the last improvements from our Templates project: - For syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), a colorblind-friendly color scheme will be added. You’ll be able to activate it via a user setting. - A range of fundamental changes to the VisualEditor template dialog will be deployed. They will make it easier to understand what is expected from a template, to navigate the template dialog, and to add parameters to a template. Feedback on all the projects is much appreciated on their respective talk pages. Thanks a lot on behalf of the Technical Wishes team, Johanna, Community Communications Technical Wishes --- * All improvements in the CodeMirror extension, which provides syntax highlighting, only apply to wikis that have the extension installed. This is generally true for left-to-right language wikis, because unfortunately the extension doesn’t work sufficiently for right-to-left languages yet [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Suggested_values_for_… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_f… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_template… [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Bracket_Matching [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme…

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Tech News (2022, week 9)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/09 >. 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/2022/09/id >, Deutsch < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/de >, English, espanol < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/es >, francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/fr >, italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/it >, norsk bokmal < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/nb >, polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/pl >, portugues < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/pt >, portugues do Brasil < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/pt-br >, suomi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/fi >, svenska < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/sv >, ?e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/cs >, русский < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/ru >, укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/uk >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/he >, ??????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/ar >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/fa >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/bn >, ??? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/th >, 中文 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/zh >, 日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/ja >, ???? ??? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/09/mni > 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/2022/09 > are available. *Recent changes* - When searching for edits by change tags < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tags >, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Miscellaneou… >. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27909 > - Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Mentor_dashboard > will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301268 >[3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294460 > - The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109327 >. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words >. *Problems* - The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking_changes > pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298638 > *Changes later this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.24 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap >). *Future changes* - Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates > are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features. - If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300314 > if you think you might be affected. *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/2022/09 > ? 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… >.*

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Tech News 2022, week 08

by Benoit Evellin (Trizek)

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/2022/08 > are available: - Bahasa Indonesia < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/id > - Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/de > - Kirundi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/rn > - espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/es > - francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/fr > - italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/it > - norsk bokmal < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/nb > - polski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/pl > - portugues < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/pt > - portugues do Brasil < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/pt-br > - suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/fi > - svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/sv > - ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/cs > - русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/ru > - укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/uk > - ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/he > - ??????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/ar > - ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/fa > - ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/bn > - ??? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/th > - 中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/zh > - 日本語 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/ja > - ???? ??? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/08/mni > *Recent changes* - Special:Nuke < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Nuke > will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown >) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Admins_and_p… .> . [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25020 > - At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary > by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Account… >. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301820 > - You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301588 > - There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Minerva_Neue >. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298638 > is on Phabricator. *Events* - Community Wishlist Survey results < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve… > have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve… > is also available. *Changes later this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.23 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap >). *Future changes* - The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TimedMediaHandl… > has been a beta feature for over four years. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 >[5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418 > - Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Stretch_deprecation > on Wikitech. [6] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.… > - Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve… > the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Admins_and_p… > . *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/2022/08 > ? 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… >.* -- Benoit Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation < https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >

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Tech News (2022, week 7)

by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

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Etherpad maintenance this Thursday

by Daniel Zahn

The service Etherpad ( https://etherpad.wikimedia.org ) might be unreachable during the following maintenance window: This Thursday, Feb 10th 2022, from 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC (9 to 10:30 AM PST). It will be upgraded to a new version on a new server during this time. We hope the actual downtime will be much shorter than that but you should not count on it. While existing pads should not be affected by this in any way, please keep in mind that in general this is a service without an SLO supported on a best effort basis. Best regards, Daniel -- Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org> Operations Engineer

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by Nick Wilson (Quiddity)

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