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Tech News: 2024-08

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

If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [1]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [2]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [3][4]

Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [5]

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Question

Greetings ToBeFree, I hope you are doing well. I'm puzzled, and I need your advice on the boundaries of my topic ban. I was reading though an article, and while reading, I noted missing citations here and there; subsequently, I made a few edits. Then I realized that this article contains mentions of Azerbaijan and Armenia, and although my edits did not touch those parts, I am still not sure—do those edits fall outside the boundaries of my topic ban? or am I not allowed to edit that article, which is not about Armenia or Azerbaijan but mentions them? Thank you! A b r v a g l^(PingMe) 16:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abrvagl, my personal opinion is that the edits can stay unless reverted by someone else (no need for you or me to revert), but that future edits similarly close to the topic ban area should probably be avoided. For a definite answer, I'm afraid the only way to get an official one is a clarification request at WP:ARCA. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for advice, I decided to RV myself as I am still in doubt. Have a nice day! A b r v a g l^(PingMe) 11:21, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]