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Tech News: 2023-20[change source]

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Problems

Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [1]

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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]

Future changes

There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [3]

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ChenzwBot[change source]

Hi, my name is Sam and I’m a Product Manager on the Moderator Tools team at the Wikimedia Foundation. We’re exploring a potential new project for next year, to build a kind of anti-vandalism bot which could be used on any Wikimedia project, using a new machine-learning algorithm.

Since you run ChenzwBot, I wanted to reach out to ask you a few questions about your experience, so that we can learn more about the feasibility of this project.

What prompted you to create this bot?

How does the bot work? What models does it use to determine which edits to revert?

What does the community think about it? Were there any discussions or disagreements about deploying the bot?

If you have any other thoughts or suggestions about our idea I’d love to hear them! Hearing about your experiences will really help us in understanding whether this project is viable and what we should be thinking about.

Thanks, Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:23, 22 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Tech News: 2023-21[change source]

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Recent changes

The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [4]

Changes later this week

An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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Tech News: 2023-22[change source]

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

Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [6]
The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [7]

Problems

For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [9]

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User:ChenzwBot for viwiki[change source]

Hi Chenzw, I've been asked on behalf of the Vietnamese Wikipedia project if it is possible to write and operate the Vietnamese version of ChenzwBot to revert vandalism on that project. I noticed that in the source code you wrote that it was theoretically possible to operate it on other MediaWiki wikis, is that still correct? I've subscribed to this topic and watched your talk page for response, so you don't have to be in a hurry anyway. Thank you and regards, NgocAnMaster (talk) 08:56, 3 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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