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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of September 2024. Please help Translate.
The Language and Product Localisation team is hosting two office hours to discuss this year's plans and gather feedback from event organizers. The first session is October 5 at 16:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly), and the second is on October 6 at 03:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly).
MediaWiki Product Insights: The latest edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1]
For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [2]
The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]
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So I had to leave right around the closing ceremony ended to be able to go to the airpoint and your announcement shocked me (you really should have let me know that you were planning something in advance). I haven't really had time to really process what happened and it's stressing me out. Anyways, the point is that I have no idea what's going on and I'd like more information. I don't think I'm the only person who is confused, so I'd just appreciate whatever you can say about the matter on-wiki. I think the basic idea is that you want to give me money but you're also starting some sort of grant-like program? Given that my keynote, my name and a lot of money is attached to this, I think I deserve to know what is happening. I'm sure all of this came from a good place but the implementation has caused me a lot of unnecessary stress. Clovermoss🍀(talk)01:58, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007015800","author":"Clovermoss","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Clovermoss-20241007015800-About_the_closing_ceremony...","replies":["c-Ocaasi-20241007041300-Clovermoss-20241007015800"],"displayName":"Clovermoss\ud83c\udf40"}}-->
I can't imagine the mix of emotions you're feeling, especially after your extremely brave and vulnerable speech. I understand that you are stressed, confused, and maybe even angry at the way this was handled.
First, here is what happened.
Many people were deeply affected by your story. After I was approached by Chris wanting to somehow give back, we were inspired to take action to support young editors by investing in broadening their opportunities.
That is why we created the Butterfly Fund, in your honor, and to support other young editors with great talents. Your keynote catalyzed feelings of generosity, vulnerability, and motivation. The power of your story resulted in the fund.
We did not tell you this was coming before we announced it. I intended it to be a [good] surprise. That was a mistake, and I am deeply sorry for the stress it caused you.
You're doing amazing work, and this was our way of showing pride and appreciation for your contributions. What you've done for yourself is amazing. We wanted to empower you have to the opportunity to follow your dreams, whatever they are.
It is your choice if you wish to accept the award. It's your choice how, or even whether, you use these funds.
Please know that I am sorry for the pain that I caused during a day that was already vulnerable and stressful as you offered a keynote for the first time.
I understand why you are confused and will answer any questions you have. I hope we can talk more. You can decide what happens next.
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I think I just need some time. It's been a really stressful day and I'm stuck in the US overnight because my connecting flight was delayed by about eight hours. So I don't really want to make any decisions right now about what I want to do or not. I appreciate the apology. Is there like a timeline for when I need to be making any decisions? Clovermoss🍀(talk)04:59, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007045900","author":"Clovermoss","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Clovermoss-20241007045900-Ocaasi-20241007041300","replies":["c-Ocaasi-20241007050500-Clovermoss-20241007045900"],"displayName":"Clovermoss\ud83c\udf40"}}-->
You do not have to make any decisions. There is absolutely no timeline. This is up to you, as you see fit to handle it when you feel ready to. There is also no pressure from me to make any particular choice or decision; I want you to do what is best for you, once you've had space to figure that out, process, and gather more information/opinions/support. Please take as much time as you need. Sorry about your flight, too. Jake Ocaasit | c05:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241007050500","author":"Ocaasi","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Ocaasi-20241007050500-Clovermoss-20241007045900","replies":[]}}-->
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
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. [4]
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. [5]
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. [6]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
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.
