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- Thanks for the heads-up! I was a novice Wikipedian when I uploaded this file, and was not aware of this requirement. I've gone ahead and added fair-use rationale for the article Robert Majzels, and removed the notice. Cheers. --Ori.livneh (talk) 22:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Peirce png file
[edit]Can you change that new Charles Sanders Peirce png file, which you produced and inserted, to a jpg? The jpg that was there was, in its 200px form, around 18KB. The new png in its 200px form is around 64KB. The Tetrast (talk) 20:53, 12 May 2010 (UTC).
- Thanks for doing that. By the way, why did you replace the earlier jpg, was it too lightened or something? The Tetrast (talk) 20:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC).
Ludlow Massacre talk page
[edit]No hard feelings. My comment was a little more vitriolic than i intended. Thanks, best wishes, Richard Myers (talk) 05:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Translation wanted
[edit]Dear Ori-livneh, I would like you to have a look at the article about the Alois Kottmann Award as we are looking for a Hebrew translation of it. The article actually is also available in German (original), French, Japanese, and Swedish. You'll find these links on the left. If you need any further informations don't hesitate to contact me. Many thanks in advance. ArcCan (talk) 15:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry for taking a while to respond. I haven't written Hebrew prose in many years, so I'm not sure I'd be very well-suited for this. I'm much better at translating in the other direction. If there are particular phrases or words you'd like some help with, feel free to ask, and I'll try my best to assist. --Ori.livneh (talk) 04:41, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
URL change following save
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Signpost hullabaloo
[edit]Hey man, just dropping a somewhat conspicuous note to say that I liked the way you handled the Signpost thing. I was gonna send Wikilove, but it ended up being too late for me to come up with a witty barnstar. :P Keep in touch. --MahmoudHashemi (talk) 11:34, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! Yes, keep in touch! --ori (talk) 21:18, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Address this?
[edit]Comment on JavaScript. Steven Walling • talk 22:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up. --ori (talk) 20:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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- You're wonderful. Thank you. --Ori.livneh (talk) 04:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Names & articles
[edit]Dear mr. Livneh,
- It's easy to name them all, but what do they have in common apart from being quite famous and therefore present @Wikpediae in many languages?
John Ashbery, Giorgio de Chirico. Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Emma Goldman,
David Hume, Franz Kafka, Peter Kropotkin, Friedrich Nietzsche1, Jean-Jacques Rousseau2
- F.N.
- J-J.R. in reversed order compared to your UserPage
Updates there. --George Ho (talk) 23:02, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
- By the way, the pre-surgery photo is out of copyright in Japan per {{PD-Japan}}, but add another tag with {{Not-PD-US-URAA}}. I recommend that you upload that "bishonen" half in both English and Japanese Wikipedias. If you try Commons, be careful; the hosting site is U.S., and they are unsure what to do with non-U.S. works. --George Ho (talk) 03:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- My apologies; I thought you are an uploader of this non-free photo. I asked you because I thought you were. --George Ho (talk) 04:25, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- No problem. --Ori.livneh (talk) 23:04, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Verification
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thank you ori very much - like your contributions very much - uwekils.com good luck and health uwe Uwe Kils 10:18, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
You are awesome!
[edit]Thanks for all of your help in getting MassMessage deployed! Legoktm (talk) 19:42, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ori,
If you have the time and inclination, your input would be welcome at wikt:Wiktionary:Grease pit/2013/November#Module:languages, where we are discussing reorganizing our language metadata. (Qgil named you and Anomie as good people to ask "about modules and performance".)
Thanks in advance!
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[edit]I'm finding all API calls - maybe all HTTP requests - to be extremely slow, as if it's timing out on some cache. The configuration is more similar to production so that might make sense if it's waiting for some cache server that never replies. If you've seen this before, can you give me any hints? Thanks in advance. NeilK (talk) 23:23, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- Update - I've figured part of it out, but ResourceLoader remains puzzlingly slow (even in debug mode, which is basically a passthrough). I can't get any debugging or profiling information out of ResourceLoader for some reason. Maybe you would have a clue as to why? Is HHVM somehow swallowing up all file descriptors? NeilK (talk) 21:54, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Note
[edit]It was nice getting to meet you the other day!
Also, I'm testing what it's like to edit on a mobile using the mobile site. It was not a good result. I wasn't told it was going to be placed at the top of the page (!) and there was no note to sign the comment. BUT I don't blame you. I blame MZ since he runs everything. Killiondude (talk) 17:02, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- The blame game, eh? ;-)
- For better or worse, the mobile team went off the reservation long ago. :-/ --MZMcBride (talk) 18:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi
[edit]I know, I know, I'm such a troublemaker. Auerbachkeller (talk) 19:13, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Page Weight Matters
[edit]You may find [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech_project_ideas#Start_a_project_--_a_real_project_with_measurable_goals_and_a_schedule_--_to_reduce_page_weight ] to be of interest. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Guy Macon: Thanks. I replied here. --Ori Livneh (talk) 21:48, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
sabotage?
[edit]Ori hi.
you replaced in hewiki some calls to $.escapeRE() with mw.RegExp.escape(). however, there is no "mw.RegExp" object (so it does not have an "escape()" member function). moreover, mw:ResourceLoader/Modules does not mention a RegExp module, and it does not mention that $.escapeRE is deprecated or is a candidate for deprecation. what gives?
בברכה - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 22:46, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi kipod, I goofed. $.escapeRE is deprecated as of Gerrit:117651, but using mw.RegExp in its stead requires declaring a dependency on the mediawiki.RegExp, which I did not do. Sorry about that. --Ori Livneh (talk) 23:00, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- well, i guessed as much, and tried to run (in console) "mw.loader.load('mediawiki.RegExp')" (and various variations), but no dice. i also could not find any documentation about it in mw. this may be something cooking for some future, but it does not seem to be available with current version. peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 06:43, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
- I have reverted the change on cswiki as well, because, IIANM, I9e108a3 is currently only in master, and has not been deployed to WMF wikis yet. --Mormegil (talk) 11:53, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for trying to fix this gadget and the two other variants. Unfortunately, some new problems appeared with the new version. It raises an exception "ReferenceError: addSpecialCharsetHTML is not defined". The addSpecialCharsetHTML function is defined in fr:MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js, loaded from fr:MediaWiki:Common.js. I don't know how this can be fixed, would you have any idea?
For now, I disabled the three gadgets in fr:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition, because they seems to break the entire javascript environment of users who have enabled them.
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Praxis and Reflection on LSM-Tree
[edit]Hi Ori Livneh,
We are working on a survey and reflection paper of the LSM-Tree after 30 years of its introduction. We are reviewing the various implementations and interacting with the corresponding engineers that applied this algorithm in their systems including Google, Facebook, Oracle, RocksDB and others. We like the clear and down-to-earth discussion you made on the Wiki article and wonder if we can send you a few questions and learn from your insights. Thank you in advance for your help.
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- I replied on the article's talk page. Let's continue there. --Ori Livneh (talk) 02:15, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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Non-existent category
[edit]Hi Atdt
Please can you fix User:Atdt/popups.js, so that it no longer get categorises in the non-existent Category:Foo?
It's become a fixture in Special:WantedCategories, which should be capable of being cleared.
I think that the problem is caused by line 7014: // eg [[category:foo]] and [[Category:Foo]] are equivalent
Unlinking those two should fix it.
BTW, Category:Foo is a recent addition to Special:WantedCategories, but I notice that the page has not been edited for pages. So I presume that the mediawiki software has changed how it handles comments in javascript. So not your fault at all, but it'd be great if you could fix it.
Best wishes, --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:20, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. I don't use the script any more, so I just blanked the page. 00:50, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]hi.
sorry for the blunt words (elsewhere). i saw you are improving the extension, and i should thank you.
here is my opinion:
my suggestion is to keep all the functionality of the viewer (the js piece), maybe even extend it. see, e.g., my prototype (the basis of the viewer in the extension) here: mw:User:קיפודנחש/test (there's instruction to load the viewer code), which adds arrows and marks the "from" and "to" squares of the last ply, so when looking at a static board, the reader has some idea about the last move. of course you would want at most one of the two (arrow or square marks), and maybe none - the demo page shows both, just to demo "everything".
so my view is that it's better to teach the viewer to do "everything", and let sites decide what to use. i assume there can be some config file to control what would show on any site by default, and defaults should be overridable via attributes to the <pgn> tag. i can think of quite a few configuration options, such as pointing to a local page containing the CSS instead of the one that comes out of the box, and others (maybe even overriding templates and such), which will allow "skinning", for non-wikimedia sites.
specifically for buttons, something like
{
"buttons": ["start", "retreat", "autoplay", "advance", "finish", "flip"]
}
can easily control which buttons are visible by default. we can then discuss what is the preferred set of buttons for wikipedia, or wikibooks or what not, without crippling the extension and removing features that some sites may find useful.
as far as i can see, the extension does not support any config or attributes ATM. i never dealt with extensions, and can't say for sure, but i assume there is some standard way to deal with site configuration and tag attributes overrides, and i think adding configurability is a better way to deal with "the display is too cluttered".
peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 05:50, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Kipod: hi, and no worries — I appreciated your feedback! I also want to thank you for co-authoring this extension. I think it's a fantastic improvement over static images of chess boards.
- I am not an expert chess player, nor am I an expert Wikipedian (the latter not for lack of trying :)). I do have experience with the software lifecycle of MediaWiki extensions, though, and it's from this vantage-point that I say the following:
- Making the extension's features configurable at this early stage could impede its further development, because every subsequent modification will have to be compatible with (and crucially: tested against) each possible permutation of the extension's settings. Complexity ramps up surprisingly quickly this way, and bugs multiply. It is a chronic problem in the MediaWiki extension ecosystem. For this reason, I suggest deferring configurability until the extension matures.
- We have to keep our eyes on the prize. Without a sponsor team at the Wikimedia Foundation committing to its ongoing maintenance, this extension's path to production is still blocked. A compact extension implementing a minimal set of useful features faces much better odds of graduating to production and getting widely deployed. A customizable, feature-rich extension can languish in the review queue forever.
- With respect to the toolbar specifically, simplifying it is my preferred option; keeping it as is, my second favorite; and making it configurable, my least favorite, at least at this stage. ATDT (talk) 09:02, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- BTW, wikis will already be able to override the extension's appearance via
!important
CSS attributes in Common.css. ATDT (talk) 09:21, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- BTW, wikis will already be able to override the extension's appearance via
Actually, using "important" in common.css is suboptimal, and templatestyles is the preferred way. Regarding "minimal useful" vs. feature rich", this makes sense, but it pertains to adding stuff, not removing. The whole "configurability" thing came from talks with wikipedians on ruwiki, who asked for different behavior, which i supported via configuration. קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 14:55, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Ooops - on mobile now, w fat fingers. Didnt mean to "publish" yet. Will try to continue and expand once i get to a keyboard...
Peace קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 14:58, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Kipod: I think the point is getting lost here. I don't doubt that the auto-play feature is useful to some people. The issue I have is that it makes the toolbar crowded and confusing, which is not something (AFAICT) you have responded to directly. Maybe the solution is to delegate it (and other advanced features) to a hamburger menu.
- I'm kind of done squabbling about it, though. It's been gratifying and fun to contribute to this extension and to help nudge it toward wider deployment. (I think we'll get it enabled on the Beta Cluster this week.) I don't want to burn myself out by bike-shedding about this feature any further. ATDT (talk) 07:40, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
I understand that. This is why i keep bringing up the "flip", which you left in place: if there's only room for 5 buttons, autoplay comes before flip. Most sites i saw have both, but קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 13:55, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Again, the d@#$& thing published on its own... Was saying that most sites have both, but _all_ have autoplay, while only most have flip...
You made a fair point regarding mobile, which i agree with, so i modified the standalone behavior to hide speed controls and flip on mobile (easy peasy via css).
Peace. קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 14:00, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
ChessBrowser
[edit]Hi Ori.
pinged you from Wugapodes talk page, and just now realized i did not sign, so the ping failed (i guess i got used to some talk interfaces which add sig automatically). The question has to do with ChessBrowser status.
a while ago there was some discussion, and sort-of-kind-of consensus to manage communication over phab. however, this does not seem to work - i made several comments, and created several tasks a while ago, and did not see any response.
are you still interested? if so, please see my comments. also, please look at the beta site. specifically, notice several issues, which can be seen on your test page:
- file and row legends are not aligned correctly. please see [1], which uses templatestyles to correct alignments issues (also replacing faster/slower button icons with more universal ones, "inspired" by my lawn mower). i suggest merging the css into the extension, or find a better way to do it
- games with result 1/2-1/2 fail parsing. so do games with embedded comments. please see [2] - the PGNs there were copied from some "test cases" in the extension's test ([3]).
if you are no longer interested in this extension, let me know, and i'll stop bothering you. peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 20:26, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
- @קיפודנחש and Wugapodes: I'm sorry I haven't been responsive. I'm still eager to work on this, but I've had a lot to juggle (off-wiki) over the past couple of months. Things should settle down over the next few weeks and then I'll pick this back up. Your bug reports will be very useful. ATDT (talk) 04:45, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the update!
Peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 05:21, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
- I'll look into these this weekend, especially the parsing failure. I'll post updates on the phab tasks. — Wug·a·po·des 02:10, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
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Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Wikipedia Day soon
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January 14: Wikipedia Day 2024 @ Columbia University | |
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Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday
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February 21: WikiWednesday Salon @ Prime Produce | |
WikiWednesday is back this month! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info:
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Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC
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WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer
[edit]March 14: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce | |
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March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab | |
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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)
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April 11: City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon | |
Additionally, you are invited to City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon at the New York City College of Technology Library in Downtown Brooklyn! Join us in person on April 11th to learn about these great new materials at City Tech Library; to learn about editing Wikipedia; and to help increase representation of LGBTQIA individuals and issues online. All are welcome, new and experienced! Interested in attending, but not a CUNY student or faculty? Please get in touch; we'll help you navigate City Tech building security. Email Jen: jennifer.hoyer18 (at) citytech.cuny.edu.
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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night
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Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C
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Dear Wikimedian,
You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.
This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director
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Tech News: 2024-20
[edit]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
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [4] - If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [5]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=
attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [6] - The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [7]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [8][9]
The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [10]
Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [11]
Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
andpl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
andlt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
withJOIN linktarget
andpl_
withlt_
in theON
statement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [12][13]
- Replace
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Tech News: 2024-21
[edit]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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [14]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [15][16]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [17][18]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
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Tech News: 2024-22
[edit]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
- Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes:
.collapsible
,.multicol
,.reflist
,.coordinates
,.topicon
. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [19][20]
- When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [21]
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June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)
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Tech News: 2024-23
[edit]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
- It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [22]
- The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "
MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category
" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category
". [23] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (
w:dtp:
) [24]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [25][26]
Future changes
- Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic
[edit]June 8: Wiknic @ Governors Island | |
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![]() You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Governors Island, at 403 Colonels Row by the ArtCrawl Harlem house. This is a sequel event to the 2023 Governors Island Wiknic and will feature a workshop led by AfroCrowd at the ArtCrawl Harlem house. We'll also encourage collaboration for wiki-coverage of ArtCrawl Harlem's current exhibition at Governors Island. All are welcome, new and experienced! Bring a picnic blanket and some potluck, as well as some sunscreen! We'll also provide sandwiches for everyone, and maybe some NYC pizza too, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share, especially for those food cultural topics you would like to improve on Wikipedia. We'll also do a portal thing for a bit with West Coast friends at Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Wiknic2024. Saturday, June 8, 2024 NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island (RSVP on-wiki)
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Tech News: 2024-24
[edit]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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [27]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-text
class, Parsoid now also adds thereference-text
class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [28]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [29]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [30][31]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [32]- On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>
system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [33]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-25
[edit]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
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [34]
- The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [35][36]
- The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [37]
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [38]
- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [39]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [40][41]
- Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [42]
- Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [43]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
[edit]June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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Tech News: 2024-26
[edit]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
- Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [44]
- The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [45]
Problems
- You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [46]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [47][48]
- Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [49]
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-27
[edit]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
- Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [50]
- Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [51]
- If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [52][53]
- Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [54]
- Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (
w:btm:
) [55]
Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [56]
Future changes
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Tech News: 2024-28
[edit]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
- At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
- The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
- Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
- Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.
Problems
- A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.
Future changes
- The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
Tech News survey
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Fri July 19: Wikicurious in NYC, Editing Wikipedia for Beginners
[edit]July 19: Wikicurious: Editing Wikipedia for Beginners @ Civic Hall | |
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Tech News: 2024-29
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News survey
- Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
- The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
- Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
- Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.
Changes later this week
- This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.
Future changes
Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [57]
- Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:28, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-30
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature News
- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
- Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [58]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [59]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
- Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [60]
Project Updates
- Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Learn more
- Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
- How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-31
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (
voy:cs:
) [61]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-32
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}
and{{#bcp47}}
. These will reduce the need forTemplate:Dir
andTemplate:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [62][63]- Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.
Learn more
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:40, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-33
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [64]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:
) [65]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
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![]() You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Roosevelt Island, at Southpoint Park. Following up on this month's Wikimania in Poland, this Wiknic will have as guest of honor User:DerHexer, the 2024 Wikimedia Laureate of the Year, marking his triumphant North American tour! Bring a picnic blanket and some potluck, as well as some sunscreen! We'll also provide a little something for everyone, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share, especially for those food cultural topics you would like to improve on Wikipedia. We'll also do a portal thing for a bit with West Coast friends at the WikiLA ocean life edit-a-thon. All are welcome, new and experienced! Saturday, August 24, 2024 NYC Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island (RSVP on-wiki)
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.
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Tech News: 2024-34
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [66]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
property ofmw.title objects
. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [67][68]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.- Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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