From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Tech News: 2022-25
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
Wikipedia App for Android
now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu
).
[1]
Some recent database changes may affect queries using the
Quarry tool
. Queries for
site_stats
at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated.
Read more
.
A new
user_global_editcount
variable can be used in
abuse filters
to avoid affecting globally active users.
[2]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (
calendar
).
- Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping
Jon (WMF)
to any on-wiki conversations.
[3]
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for
DiscussionTools
will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see
some of the proposed changes
.
Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different
typeof
attribute values, and instead use
mw:File
for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects:
mw:Image
,
mw:Audio
, or
mw:Video
.
[4]
Tech news
prepared by
Tech News writers
and posted by
bot
??
Contribute
??
Translate
??
Get help
??
Give feedback
??
Subscribe or unsubscribe
.