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Quiddity created T368460: Automate weekly request for Phabricator data for potential Tech News entries.
Tue, Jun 25, 9:09 PM · Phabricator
Quiddity created P65393 firefox userChrome.css.
Tue, Jun 25, 12:30 AM

Sat, Jun 22

Quiddity added a comment to T364684: Brief RuntimeException on wikitech: Could not open '/tmp/mw-GlobalIdGenerator33-UUID-128'.

Noting for the record, i've deleted those 2 pages now, just to help empty the Category:Pages with broken file links.

Sat, Jun 22, 10:08 PM · MediaWiki-libs-UUID, Wikimedia-production-error, wikitech.wikimedia.org

Fri, Jun 21

Quiddity moved T361717: [VISUAL CHANGE] Make diffs and change lists text accessible in both day and night modes from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 21, 9:34 PM · User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), Design-System-Team, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024, Codex, FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T366515: [VISUAL CHANGE] Visited links are not accessible in dark mode from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 21, 9:34 PM · User-notice, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity moved T365974: Deploy talk page permalinks to en.wiki from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 21, 8:53 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, DiscussionTools
Quiddity updated the task description for T356718: Support nested special page transclusion?.
Fri, Jun 21, 5:56 PM · Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team-WIP
Quiddity updated the task description for T368119: It is no longer possible to click links within visualeditor's popupWidget.
Fri, Jun 21, 5:34 PM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), Editing-team (Kanban Board), Regression, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor
Quiddity awarded T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text a Like token.
Fri, Jun 21, 5:25 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Quiddity moved T368128: SVGs using invalid BCP 47 language codes do not show text from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 21, 5:25 PM · User-notice, Thumbor
Quiddity created T368119: It is no longer possible to click links within visualeditor's popupWidget.
Fri, Jun 21, 12:57 AM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), Editing-team (Kanban Board), Regression, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor
Quiddity added a comment to T12347: Should protection status indicators be handled by MediaWiki core (vs. templates)?.

Thank you for the reply and the draft @JJMC89 , much appreciated.
I will postpone including this in Tech News for now, in the hopes that someone can write/update the related documentation.

Fri, Jun 21, 12:10 AM · User-notice, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), MediaWiki-Engineering, Web-Team-Backlog (Needs Prioritization (Tech)), Design, Vector (legacy skin), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), Community-Wishlist-Survey-2016, JavaScript, MediaWiki-User-Interface

Thu, Jun 20

Quiddity moved T367463: Tables with images inside them appear at minuscule size or disappear due to responsive image CSS from Not ready to announce to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.

Ah, right, then I believe this is essentially covered by the mention in last week's Tech News. Thanks.

Thu, Jun 20, 10:51 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), MinervaNeue, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity added a comment to T367645: The background of some SVG maps is not rendered.

For Tech News, please could anyone propose a clear description of the context for the problem and how editors familiar with SVG can most effectively help?
My best guess is something like this:

If you are familiar with editing SVGs, you can help to fix some files that use invalid syntax, which do not display correctly anymore due to stricter standards in web browsers and due to the recent software library update for our thumbnail system.

Thu, Jun 20, 10:35 PM · User-notice, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering
Quiddity moved T367645: The background of some SVG maps is not rendered from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 10:35 PM · User-notice, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering
Quiddity moved T361717: [VISUAL CHANGE] Make diffs and change lists text accessible in both day and night modes from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 10:05 PM · User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), Design-System-Team, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024, Codex, FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T347324: Rename tracking categories for consistency in WMF-deployed extensions from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 10:05 PM · User-notice, Patch-For-Review, DynamicPageList, Community-Tech, Voice & Tone, WikiHiero, EasyTimeline, MediaWiki-extensions-Score, MediaWiki-extensions-RSS, MediaWiki-extensions-Phonos, Maps (Kartographer), MediaWiki-extensions-Graph
Quiddity added a comment to T367463: Tables with images inside them appear at minuscule size or disappear due to responsive image CSS.

For Tech News, please could someone confirm or describe what exactly needs to be communicated? I'm uncertain if it's essentially just informing everyone about a temporary bug that was fixed, or if there's any followup edits that might (or do) need to made by editors. If it's the former, I would hesitantly propose using this wording:

  • Two weeks ago there was a problem with the displayed size of some images that are used within tables. This was fixed last week.
Thu, Jun 20, 10:02 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), MinervaNeue, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity moved T367463: Tables with images inside them appear at minuscule size or disappear due to responsive image CSS from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 10:02 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), MinervaNeue, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

P.s. @hnowlan I see there's an unmerged patch connected to this task, yet the task is marked as resolved. Does that status need to be changed?

Thu, Jun 20, 9:34 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Quiddity added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

Hi @Snaevar (or anyone), given that the proposed parser function hasn't been merged yet, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on how to most clearly help the editors who might need some guidance?

Thu, Jun 20, 9:33 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Quiddity moved T288287: Remove IE11 from Basic support ("Grade C") from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 8:45 PM · User-notice, Design-System-Team, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.15; 2023-06-27), Front-end Modernization, CSS, MediaWiki-General, MediaWiki-extensions-General, Browser-Support-Internet-Explorer
Quiddity added a project to T288287: Remove IE11 from Basic support ("Grade C"): User-notice.
Thu, Jun 20, 8:45 PM · User-notice, Design-System-Team, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.15; 2023-06-27), Front-end Modernization, CSS, MediaWiki-General, MediaWiki-extensions-General, Browser-Support-Internet-Explorer
Quiddity added a comment to T366419: Default user option for Reference Previews changed for users created before 2017/08/16 without any justification.

For the proposed Tech News entry (per User-notice), please could someone suggest how to phrase it?
I am uncertain what aspects need to be highlighted.
Plus it seems like the latest patches may change the information.
(i.e. Is this purely an informational announcement about a bug (and is the bug now fixed? or will be soon?), or is any action required from any sub-group of editors?).
Thanks.

Thu, Jun 20, 8:41 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), WMDE-TechWish-Sprint-2024-06-12, Regression, User-notice, Reference Previews
Quiddity added a comment to T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle.

Hi, for Tech News, please could someone advise on the wording and timing of the entry?
I see it is tagged as 1.43.0-wmf.11 and hence rolling out next week, but I'm not sure if it needs to be announced in the upcoming edition, or if there's perhaps a good reason to delay it by a week or more (e.g. to write/update any related documentation that we'd link to from the entry). Thanks.

Thu, Jun 20, 8:28 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T12347: Should protection status indicators be handled by MediaWiki core (vs. templates)? from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.

Hi, thanks for adding the User-notice tag. For a Tech News entry, please could someone suggest what needs to be communicated to editors, and also when it is best to announce it?
I.e. Are there any immediately visible changes in next week's deployment train that technical editors (or interface admins) will need to prepare for, at any or all wikis?
Plus, is there any documentation that can be linked to from the entry? (or if documentation still needs to be written/updated, should we postpone the Tech News entry until it is ready?) Thanks.

Thu, Jun 20, 8:22 PM · User-notice, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), MediaWiki-Engineering, Web-Team-Backlog (Needs Prioritization (Tech)), Design, Vector (legacy skin), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), Community-Wishlist-Survey-2016, JavaScript, MediaWiki-User-Interface
Quiddity added a comment to T366515: [VISUAL CHANGE] Visited links are not accessible in dark mode.

Please confirm if this is an accurate and suitable draft for Tech News, or if anything needs to be changed or added. (e.g. Are there any links to add to the text, or perhaps an example before/after image for the top of the Description here). It will be frozen for translation in ~24hours:

The colors used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active links, was slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility.

Thu, Jun 20, 8:12 PM · User-notice, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity moved T366515: [VISUAL CHANGE] Visited links are not accessible in dark mode from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 8:12 PM · User-notice, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity updated the task description for T366515: [VISUAL CHANGE] Visited links are not accessible in dark mode.
Thu, Jun 20, 7:54 PM · User-notice, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 6)
Quiddity moved T356196: Auto triming of internal links is breaking anchors if the last character is a space from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.

Added to Tech News with this wording. Thanks for the draft!

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. [1]

Thu, Jun 20, 6:07 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), VisualEditor, User-notice, Editing-team, DiscussionTools
Quiddity moved T366751: Link Check: Use edit check blocklist API to give feedback on links as well from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 5:26 PM · Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), Goal, User-notice, EditCheck, VisualEditor-Links, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T361843: Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 5:26 PM · Editing QA, User-notice, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck
Quiddity moved T367521: Mailman Downtime: Migrate mailman from lists1001 to lists1004 from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 5:26 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, collaboration-services, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists, SRE
Quiddity moved T360954: Deploy CommunityConfiguration to testwiki from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 5:26 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.8; 2024-06-04), User-notice, Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), MediaWiki-extensions-CommunityConfiguration
Quiddity moved T366370: Enable night theme on pages which have no color contrast issues from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 5:26 PM · User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T367480: Changes to infobox, hatnote and image styling in Vector 2022 from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 20, 5:26 PM · User-notice

Tue, Jun 18

Quiddity awarded T353891: https://lists.wikimedia.org is often slow to load a Love token.
Tue, Jun 18, 10:30 PM · Upstream, SRE, Performance Issue, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists

Fri, Jun 14

Quiddity added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

Oh! Right, that makes sense for the simple variant, thanks.
Re: the new parser function, I cannot reproduce a successful test. (testwiki and beta cluster). But also, the patch isn't merged yet, so I'm also guessing that maybe you tested it locally?
I will delay including this entry in Tech News until next week, once everything is clearer (to me at least!). Thanks again for the details, and the drafts.

Fri, Jun 14, 6:14 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Quiddity moved T359761: Create a parser function to get the direction of a language or script from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 14, 5:26 PM · User-notice, Patch-For-Review, RTL, MediaWiki-Internationalization, I18n
Quiddity moved T366623: Create a parser function to get the BCP47 code for a language from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 14, 5:26 PM · User-notice, Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Parser, MediaWiki-Internationalization
Quiddity moved T367480: Changes to infobox, hatnote and image styling in Vector 2022 from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 14, 5:25 PM · User-notice
Quiddity moved T367521: Mailman Downtime: Migrate mailman from lists1001 to lists1004 from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 14, 5:25 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, collaboration-services, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists, SRE
Quiddity awarded T367521: Mailman Downtime: Migrate mailman from lists1001 to lists1004 a Love token.
Fri, Jun 14, 5:24 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, collaboration-services, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists, SRE

Thu, Jun 13

Quiddity moved T366370: Enable night theme on pages which have no color contrast issues from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 13, 11:28 PM · User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T360954: Deploy CommunityConfiguration to testwiki from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 13, 11:24 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.8; 2024-06-04), User-notice, Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), MediaWiki-extensions-CommunityConfiguration
Quiddity moved T366751: Link Check: Use edit check blocklist API to give feedback on links as well from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 13, 11:02 PM · Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), Goal, User-notice, EditCheck, VisualEditor-Links, VisualEditor
Quiddity updated the description for M17: Simple accessibility and appearance preferences.
Thu, Jun 13, 8:04 PM · Design, Accessibility
Quiddity added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

I noticed another task that mentions BCP47 at T366623: Create a parser function to get the BCP47 code for a language -- I'm not sure if that's related at all, but possibly?

Thu, Jun 13, 6:32 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

Wed, Jun 12

Quiddity moved T366419: Default user option for Reference Previews changed for users created before 2017/08/16 without any justification from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Wed, Jun 12, 7:04 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), WMDE-TechWish-Sprint-2024-06-12, Regression, User-notice, Reference Previews
Quiddity added a comment to T366419: Default user option for Reference Previews changed for users created before 2017/08/16 without any justification.

For the proposed Tech News entry (per User-notice), please could someone suggest how to phrase it?
I am uncertain what aspects need to be highlighted.
Plus it seems like the latest patches may change the information.
(i.e. Is this purely an informational announcement about a bug (and is the bug now fixed? or will be soon?), or is any action required from any sub-group of editors?).
Thanks.

Wed, Jun 12, 6:47 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), WMDE-TechWish-Sprint-2024-06-12, Regression, User-notice, Reference Previews
Quiddity moved T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Wed, Jun 12, 6:38 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Quiddity added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

@Snaevar Is there an ideal listing we can link to, which provides those exact codes?
I.e. The link in your draft doesn't contain the strings en-basiceng or basiceng.

Wed, Jun 12, 6:38 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Quiddity moved T366370: Enable night theme on pages which have no color contrast issues from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Wed, Jun 12, 6:10 PM · User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T365736: Roll out new heading markup to Vector legacy and Minerva skins. from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Wed, Jun 12, 6:10 PM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), MinervaNeue, Vector (legacy skin)
Quiddity moved T49177: Confirming a fuzzied translation should be logged from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Wed, Jun 12, 6:09 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T265549: Update librsvg to version > 2.44.10 (2.50.3) from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Wed, Jun 12, 6:09 PM · User-notice, Packaging, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor
Quiddity added a comment to T360954: Deploy CommunityConfiguration to testwiki.

@Urbanecm_WMF For Tech News, do you have any suggestions on the wording? I'm not sure which aspects need/ought to be highlighted for editors. Thanks!

Wed, Jun 12, 6:01 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.8; 2024-06-04), User-notice, Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), MediaWiki-extensions-CommunityConfiguration

Tue, Jun 11

Quiddity updated the task description for T367216: Request to move translatable page: Wikimedia Foundation Legal department.
Tue, Jun 11, 6:25 PM · Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run
Quiddity updated the task description for T367217: Request to move translatable page: Trust and Safety.
Tue, Jun 11, 6:24 PM · Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run
Quiddity renamed T367219: Request to move translatable page: Global Advocacy from Request to move translatable page: PAGE_TITLE to Request to move translatable page: Global Advocacy.
Tue, Jun 11, 6:23 PM · Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run

Sat, Jun 8

Quiddity created T366987: Parsoid rendering error for the ptag template.
Sat, Jun 8, 8:11 AM · Parsoid, Parsoid-Read-Views

Fri, Jun 7

Quiddity added a comment to T49177: Confirming a fuzzied translation should be logged.

Thank you! I made a few tweaks, and have now added it to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/24 -- If any further tweaks are needed, please edit it directly there. I will be freezing it for translations in ~2 hours.

Fri, Jun 7, 8:47 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T49177: Confirming a fuzzied translation should be logged from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Jun 7, 8:46 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity added a comment to T49177: Confirming a fuzzied translation should be logged.

For Tech News, do you have a suggested summary we could use? (After reading the comments above, I'm still uncertain about which aspects need to be announced, and what kind of community decisions/feedback needs to be encouraged...?).
My best-guess is something like this (but I suspect it contains inaccuracies, and I hope someone can explain it more simply/concisely!):

Changes later this week

  • On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background and marks them as "fuzzy". From this week, changes to the "fuzzy" status will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations, if the community requests it.
Fri, Jun 7, 8:37 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.10; 2024-06-18), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity removed a project from T344378: Spike: How to obtain articles that have images with missing alt text: User-notice.

Ah, if there are no user-visible changes (or potential unintended affects) then it doesn't need inclusion in Tech News. Thank you for explaining the context though!
I'll remove the User-notice tag from here. If there's a related user-facing aspect to this deployed in the future, please add the tag to the related task!

Fri, Jun 7, 5:20 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.8; 2024-06-04), Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog (iOS Release FY2023-24), iOS Release FY2023-24 (Archive), Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog

Thu, Jun 6

Quiddity added a comment to T320220: "Translate this page" leads to wrong page.

Looks good! 2 weeks in a row with no errors, which is rare for my Tech News workflow. BIG thank you!

Thu, Jun 6, 11:43 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.26; 2024-04-09), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity awarded T320220: "Translate this page" leads to wrong page a Love token.
Thu, Jun 6, 11:42 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.26; 2024-04-09), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity added a comment to T328847: Enable sticky header at all screen-widths.

@Sj (Re: your comment in the mentioned task^) My user-CSS also does that! It even does it in mobile, and because I use it via Stylus, it also works in logged-out windows.
To use it yourself:

  1. Copy line 2 from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_II/global.css (into your equivalent)
  2. and if you want it to work on your phone, also copy line 1 from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_II/global.js (into your equivalent)
  3. Or if you want it in anon-windows and non-SUL wikis, install it via Stylus (instead of #1)

Demo of sticky header:

P.s. I also use tiled-windows on a laptop, a lot, often 4 at once, hence I've spent a lot of time on this!

Thu, Jun 6, 11:40 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity attached a referenced file: F54670566: simplescreenrecorder-2024-05-29_16.03.57.webm.
Thu, Jun 6, 11:40 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity moved T365736: Roll out new heading markup to Vector legacy and Minerva skins. from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 6, 10:57 PM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), MinervaNeue, Vector (legacy skin)
Quiddity moved T265549: Update librsvg to version > 2.44.10 (2.50.3) from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 6, 10:40 PM · User-notice, Packaging, Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor
Quiddity added a comment to T365736: Roll out new heading markup to Vector legacy and Minerva skins..

It looks like this was actually merged already and could've been announced last week.
Shall we still include an entry in next week's Tech News?
If yes, is the draft above accurate? Thanks.

Thu, Jun 6, 10:38 PM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), MinervaNeue, Vector (legacy skin)
Quiddity added a comment to T344378: Spike: How to obtain articles that have images with missing alt text.

For Tech News (per the User-notice tag that was added earlier), please could someone clarify when the entry needs to be announced, and what it should say? (1-4 sentences, 1-2 links). Thanks!

Thu, Jun 6, 10:36 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.8; 2024-06-04), Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog (iOS Release FY2023-24), iOS Release FY2023-24 (Archive), Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog
Quiddity updated the task description for T366842: Parsoid rendering error for the incidents template on Wikitech.
Thu, Jun 6, 7:49 PM · wikitech.wikimedia.org, Parsoid-Read-Views, Parsoid
Quiddity created T366842: Parsoid rendering error for the incidents template on Wikitech.
Thu, Jun 6, 7:47 PM · wikitech.wikimedia.org, Parsoid-Read-Views, Parsoid
Quiddity moved T6086: Support appending to the toolbox in a similar fashion as [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Jun 6, 3:24 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture (Menus 2.0), MediaWiki-User-Interface

Mon, Jun 3

Pols12 awarded T320220: "Translate this page" leads to wrong page a Love token.
Mon, Jun 3, 8:53 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.26; 2024-04-09), Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Fri, May 31

Quiddity added a comment to T170042: Highlight definition lists.

@aliu Yes, it does.

image.png (428×534 px, 45 KB)

Fri, May 31, 6:35 PM · Community-Tech (CommTech-Kanban), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.15; 2024-01-23), MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror

Thu, May 30

Quiddity closed T6086: Support appending to the toolbox in a similar fashion as [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] as Resolved.

Thank you! I'll re-close this, and I've added an entry to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/23 - If changes to the wording are needed, please edit directly or comment here within ~22 hours, after which it will be frozen for translations. Thanks!

Thu, May 30, 11:37 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture (Menus 2.0), MediaWiki-User-Interface
Quiddity moved T6086: Support appending to the toolbox in a similar fashion as [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, May 30, 11:37 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture (Menus 2.0), MediaWiki-User-Interface
Quiddity added a comment to T365736: Roll out new heading markup to Vector legacy and Minerva skins..

For Tech News

  1. Timing: Please confirm if this is still going out in next week's train? (per task Description)
  2. Content: I believe we just need to repeat/adapt the prior mention from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/21 - Please confirm if this (adapted) draft is accurate? (or fix!)

The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change this 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.

E.g. Perhaps we can add an expected timing note for Vector-2022? (I.e. Changing that sentence to something like "[...] before this change is made in Vector-2022 in a few weeks.")
Thanks!

Thu, May 30, 11:26 PM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), MinervaNeue, Vector (legacy skin)
Quiddity added a comment to T365974: Deploy talk page permalinks to en.wiki.

It looks like User-notice was added here just because this task was forked from the parent-task which had it. Does it need another Tech News announcement? (possibly useful as a reminder for all?)

Thu, May 30, 10:57 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, DiscussionTools
Quiddity moved T365974: Deploy talk page permalinks to en.wiki from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, May 30, 10:57 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, DiscussionTools
Quiddity reopened T6086: Support appending to the toolbox in a similar fashion as [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] as "Open".

[re-opening until documentation is updated]
For Tech News, how should this be described? [1-4 simple sentences, 1-2 links].
And, is there any documentation to link to?

Thu, May 30, 10:50 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.7; 2024-05-28), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture (Menus 2.0), MediaWiki-User-Interface

Wed, May 29

Quiddity added a comment to T365631: Redesign Vector 2022 header and actions for mobile devices.

For the header, I think I've got it working well in my user-CSS customizations. I.e.

Wed, May 29, 11:19 PM · Content Discovery, Web-Team-Backlog, Design, Mobile, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity added a comment to T307732: Show Edit, History, and Watch tabs at narrow widths.

I wonder if it would be possible to simply turn these links into icons, under 720px?
My user-CSS accomplishes it like this (lines 951–1043):

Wed, May 29, 10:12 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity moved T316303: Check global rights during autocreation from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Wed, May 29, 4:49 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), User-notice, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager
Quiddity moved T365661: Gadget developers: New API for creating portlets/dropdowns from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Wed, May 29, 4:49 PM · User-notice
Quiddity moved T361659: Changes to how templates are styled in mobile from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Wed, May 29, 4:48 PM · User-notice
Quiddity created T366200: Skin discussion links in user-preferences needs update.
Wed, May 29, 4:26 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban), MinervaNeue

May 25 2024

Quiddity created T365895: Icon fixes for supplementary vector user links.
May 25 2024, 12:58 AM · FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity added a comment to T358403: RecentChanges has color contrast issues in night mode.

I think the second link in the Description might be wrong? IIUC it should probably be
https://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?minervanightmode=1

May 25 2024, 12:44 AM · Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024, Web-Team-Backlog, good first task, patch-welcome, MediaWiki-Recent-changes, Growth-Team, FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations

May 24 2024

Quiddity moved T361659: Changes to how templates are styled in mobile from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
May 24 2024, 5:55 PM · User-notice
Quiddity added a comment to T361659: Changes to how templates are styled in mobile.

For Tech News, please confirm if this is an accurate summary (or tweak as needed):

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, and .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

I can then add that tomorrow (Friday). (Or you can add it directly once it's good.)

May 24 2024, 12:40 AM · User-notice
Quiddity moved T365661: Gadget developers: New API for creating portlets/dropdowns from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
May 24 2024, 12:19 AM · User-notice
Quiddity added a comment to T365661: Gadget developers: New API for creating portlets/dropdowns.

Added to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/22 -- I've added the 2 links inline. Please confirm that is still accurate (and reply here, or fix it directly, if it isn't).

May 24 2024, 12:19 AM · User-notice

May 23 2024

Quiddity moved T316303: Check global rights during autocreation from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
May 23 2024, 10:40 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.11; 2024-06-25), User-notice, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager
Quiddity moved T365736: Roll out new heading markup to Vector legacy and Minerva skins. from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
May 23 2024, 10:24 PM · Verified, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 5), MinervaNeue, Vector (legacy skin)
Quiddity moved T365078: [BREAKING CHANGE] Changes to heading HTML in certain skins from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
May 23 2024, 10:12 PM · User-notice
Quiddity awarded T365078: [BREAKING CHANGE] Changes to heading HTML in certain skins a Love token.
May 23 2024, 10:12 PM · User-notice