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- 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 do not 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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[4]
- 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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