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Wikitech-ambassadors January 2023

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[event] [crossposting] Wiki-based Business Process Tooling at NASA: The Need for Open CSP
by Erica Litrenta 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

The Tech Department at Wikimedia Foundation [1] invites you to a* special event on February 09, 2023, at 1600 UTC* [2]. *Richard Evans, Electronics & Data Systems Engineer At NASA Glenn Research Center *[3], will be presenting on *how MediaWiki is being used within NASA* to help manage the testing of very large spacecraft to prove they can survive the harsh conditions of launch, orbit, and re-entry. The management platform is built from MediaWiki and several key extensions that provide workflow support. This evolving platform plans to incorporate the extensions that form the MediaWiki-powered Open CSP platform [4]. This talk will explain the architecture and benefits of the NASA platform and motivate the need for Open CSP. We’ll also be recording the event to share with those who can’t make it. You can join the event through Google Meet [5]. Looking forward to seeing you there, *--on behalf of the Tech Department, Wikimedia Foundation.* *(For follow-ups, please reach out to *lnguyen(a)wikimedia.org.) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology [2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675958415 [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q618728#sitelinks-wikipedia [4] https://www.open-csp.org/Main_Page [5] https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ce81307c-cdb7-4a5e-9697-65c423f27614 -- ________________________________ Erica Litrenta (she/her) Senior Manager, Community Relations Specialists (Product) Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech News (2023, week 05)
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

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Tech News (2023, week 04)
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

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Tech News (2023, week 03)
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/03 . 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 < 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/2023/03/id >, Deutsch < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/de >, English, Esperanto < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/eo >, Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/vi >, espanol < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/es >, francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/fr >, ikirundi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/rn >, italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/it >, polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/pl >, ?e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/cs >, русский < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/ru >, укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/uk >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/he >, ??????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/ar >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/fa >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/bn >, 中文 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/zh >, 日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/ja >, ?語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/yue >, ???? ??? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/03/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/2023/03 > are available. *Problems* - The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243569 > *Changes later this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.19 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap >). - Some changes to the appearance of talk pages < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usabil… > have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Meta talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Meta: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-… > (beta feature < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat… >). [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325417 > - On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [3] < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/ProofreadPage/+/868841 > - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Wikipedia:Vector_2022 >. *Future changes* - The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve… >, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Sandbox >. *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/2023/03 > ? 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 (2023, week 02)
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/02 . 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 < 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/2023/02/id >, Deutsch < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/de >, English, Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/vi >, espanol < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/es >, francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/fr >, italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/it >, polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/pl >, suomi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/fi >, svenska < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/sv >, ?e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/cs >, укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/uk >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/he >, ??????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/ar >, ?????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/hi >, ????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/bn >, 日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/ja >, ?語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/02/yue > 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/2023/02 > are available. *Recent changes* - You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174349 > - Special:WhatLinksHere < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere > shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype < https://wlh.toolforge.org > for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T4306 >. - You can now use the thanks < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Thanks > function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51541 > - A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325257 > - Matrix < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Matrix.org > is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326021 > - You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233493 > *Changes later this week* - Realtime preview for wikitext < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wi… > is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar. - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis < https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist >) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis < https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist >). - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.18 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap >). *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/2023/02 > ? 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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Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: registration and scholarship application open
by Lea Lacroix 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Hello all, As you may have heard, the Wikimedia Hackathon < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023 > is back in person on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. We are now opening the registration form that also includes an optional scholarship application form open until January 14th. Registration is required to attend the onsite Wikimedia Hackathon in Athens. The registration form remains open until we reach the capacity of the venue (around 220 people). The event is free of charge - participants are expected to book their travel arrangements individually, unless they are granted a scholarship. You can register here by getting yourself a (free) ticket for the hackathon! < https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wmhack2023/ > (see also the detailed instructions < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Participate#Registr… > ) In order to support the technical community and participants from diverse backgrounds, the Wikimedia Foundation provides scholarships that cover travel and accommodation for a selected number of technical contributors. The application form is part of the registration process, and is open until January 14th. You can find more information about the scholarship process, committee and criteria on the related page < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Participate#Scholar… > . The registration and scholarship application form runs with Pretix, an open source third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the privacy statement < https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023_regist… > . If you’d like to connect with others on plans for the hackathon, the talk page < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Connect > and the other channels listed here < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Connect > are good places to get started! If you have any questions or issues with the registration form and/or the scholarship application, feel free to reach out to the organization team on the talk page or at hackathon(a)wikimedia.org. For the organization team, -- *Lea Lacroix *(she/her) Hackathon Event Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation < https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >

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