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MediaWiki releases, again
[edit]Hi, thank you for your hard work creating tech news. Looking through the archives, it seems like this was previously mentioned so I'm a little late, but I would like to request that a link to the new MediaWiki release is added to the newsletter (maybe I'm missing it? If it already exists, it needs to be made more obvious).
I had found a change to the rights log interface in my editing (phab:T369466) and could not find it in tech news, so had to find an old issue of tech news with a link to the then-new MediaWiki release and worked from there to find the Phabricator link. I would argue that that is incredibly inefficient and lacks transparency. Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 11:51, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for bringing this up. It's always good to know that a requested change has more support.
- I've mostly been stuck on where & how exactly to add this in. (I want to get it 'right' immediately, to avoid wasting the time of translators with multiple iterations)
- There's also a related request to add in recurring mentions of the new Codex releases (but that's every-other-week, which is harder to automate, thus adding to my inertia!).
- Do you (or anyone) have specific ideas on where to place the link, and how exactly to write it?
- I.e. It's potentially semi-complicated to write as prose, because Tech News is usually sent on late Mondays (UTC) and the deployment train is from Tuesday-Thursday. So perhaps a plain link without any prose-context is both best, as well as simplest? Or does it need some prose-context, to help make sense of why it points to a page that is empty until the train starts rolling out?
- I'd prefer not to re-use the old full-sentence version, unless those details are needed for a lot of readers, as it was the most widely specified "not useful" part in the last survey (overview, and specific question).
- Also, do you (or anyone) have any other recurring-update links that would be helpful to add into Tech News, aside from MediaWiki and Codex?
- E.g. We could have a new recurring point in the section "Updates for technical contributors", that simply says something like:
- Or something else? E.g. a new link in the Footer section? Thoughts welcome. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 01:32, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for the late reply. The recurring point format and wording works for me, or you could put it in the "in depth" section (as for a bit more context, it says why it's blank when you click on it, so that should be OK). I suspect that people just ignore the footer, so that is probably not the best place, in my opinion.To give a bit more context, I don't subscribe to the newsletter (too many messages on my talk page), but find the MediaWiki updates helpful when I notice a change – under the current format, by the time the next newsletter comes out announcing changes that have already occurred, that's too late from my perspective. Sdrqaz (talk) 22:53, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
- Belated thanks for the change; looks good! Sdrqaz (talk) 04:04, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for the late reply. The recurring point format and wording works for me, or you could put it in the "in depth" section (as for a bit more context, it says why it's blank when you click on it, so that should be OK). I suspect that people just ignore the footer, so that is probably not the best place, in my opinion.To give a bit more context, I don't subscribe to the newsletter (too many messages on my talk page), but find the MediaWiki updates helpful when I notice a change – under the current format, by the time the next newsletter comes out announcing changes that have already occurred, that's too late from my perspective. Sdrqaz (talk) 22:53, 26 February 2025 (UTC)