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Tech News: 2024-46
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
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [1]
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatementschanged to behave likegetBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [3]- Pangangghuy REST API Wikimedia, amèndhâna panata bot tor pamorbhâ'ân pakakas mèlangan aperrèyana polana paranyaran sè amayèngan. API bâkto ghânèka amataraghiyâ sajumlah nokta akhèr mua'an pelataran ḍâri RESTbase dâ' nokta akhèr API REST MèdiaWiki sè anyar. Nokta akhèr sè aperrèyan alebbhui pamondhutan mètadata pelataran/revisi tor konten HTML sè ètampil'aghi. Sanèskara pangaobâ'ân ka'dinto alasta neng wiki oddhi nalèka akhèr pekkan ka'dinto, tor èyanjhur projèk-projèk samèbissa. Obâ'ân panèka mustèna ta' aperrèyan dâ' fungsionalitas sè pon taksè, nangèng pangangghuy aktif ḍâri nokta akhèr sè merrè kodhu ngalakoni verifikasi partèngka'an neng test-wiki, tor ngator'aghi parkara masalah ponapa bisaos neng tiket Phabricator taghâut.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [4]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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