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A barnstar for you!
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The Technical Barnstar |
| For the creation of Module:ACImplNotes/Proposal/Automatic, which is used through Template:ACImplNotes/Proposal/Automatic and with Template:ACImplNotes on proposed decision pages, resulting in automatic updates such as [1] vs. [2]. I thought we'd need a bot for this, and noone ever wrote one. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:51, 2 September 2024 (UTC) |
- Thanks, ToBeFree. (If only I could get as many barnstars from everyone else in total as I've gotten from you!) The module/template still needs some work — such as on what to do when the specified section name matches 0 or 2+ sections. SilverLocust 💬 05:47, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Well, if it currently doesn't, I think it should simply display a big red inconveniently design-/table-breaking error message. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Added an error message. SilverLocust 💬 04:37, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- If it helps, consider this to be a barnstar from me, too! Thank you, SilverLocust! HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 19:52, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, HouseBlaster. SilverLocust 💬 04:37, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-36
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Weekly highlight
- Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
- Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [3] - Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [4]
- Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
- A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
- State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [5]
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Your GA nomination of Lisa Blatt
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Tech News: 2024-37
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Feature news
- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [6][7]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [8]
Project updates
- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [9]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOSnamespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos). [10]
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Your GA nomination of Lisa Blatt
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By the way...
[edit]...I imagine someone's mentioned before, but just in case: if you're not thinking about an RfA, you should be. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:33, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for saying so. I imagine that it doesn't come as a surprise that I'm looking to request those additional tools. SilverLocust 💬 07:24, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
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