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Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]
Updates for editors
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [2]
It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
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Hi EggRoll, don't know if you've seen it, but I pinged you for a filter change at EFR. Thanks Nobody (talk) 13:48, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241009134800","author":"1AmNobody24","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-1AmNobody24-20241009134800-Filter_812_modification","replies":["c-EggRoll97-20241009154300-1AmNobody24-20241009134800"],"displayName":"Nobody"}}-->
@1AmNobody24: Yep. Noticed it at the time, just didn't have a chance to respond in the moment. I've implemented it now and noted as such on EFR. EggRoll97(talk) 15:43, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241009154300","author":"EggRoll97","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-EggRoll97-20241009154300-1AmNobody24-20241009134800","replies":[]}}-->
