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Today

Quiddity added a comment to T351761: Only exists last dump for Wikipedia languages bbc, dga, zgh.

Those were the newest wikis created (~3 weeks ago) so this is possibly expected?
Cf. The top entries at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+log/master/dblists%2Fall.dblist

Wed, Nov 29, 3:35 AM · Dumps-Generation

Fri, Nov 24

Quiddity added a comment to T342661: When displaying a LTR fallback label in a RTL locale we should add the `dir` and `lang` attribute.

A bug-report in Telegram provided this example, which I believe is part of this task. Adding here in case live-examples are useful:
Screenshot from https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z11938?uselang=pnb versus https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z11938?uselang=en
where the text should display as +e Python but shows as e Python+ in RTL.

image.png (1×622 px, 334 KB)

Fri, Nov 24, 9:56 PM · I18n, RTL, Abstract Wikipedia team

Thu, Nov 23

Quiddity updated subscribers of T351231: Publish wikimedia/minify v2.7.0 release.

@Jdforrester-WMF re: User-notice - is this task already covered by the entry in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/48 about async/await (which links to T343499) or is it a separate entry (if so, what should it say?)? Thanks!

Thu, Nov 23, 9:40 PM · User-notice, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, Wikimedia-Minify
Quiddity moved T337398: DEFAULTSORT not recognized by VisualEditor from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 23, 9:36 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, Parsoid (Tracking), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T308143: Deploy "add a link" to 17th round of wikis from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 23, 9:31 PM · Growth-Team (Sprint 3 (Growth Team)), Turkish-Sites, Machine-Learning-Team, User-notice, Add-Link
Quiddity moved T347711: [Zebra] Enable refactored Zebra on certain wikis for testing purposes from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 23, 9:31 PM · Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 3)
Quiddity moved T308142: Deploy "add a link" to 16th round of wikis from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 23, 9:31 PM · Growth-Team (Sprint 3 (Growth Team)), Tamil-Sites, Serbian-Sites, Machine-Learning-Team, Thai-Sites, User-notice, Add-Link
Quiddity moved T308141: Deploy "add a link" to 15th round of wikis from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 23, 9:31 PM · Growth-Team (Sprint 3 (Growth Team)), Machine-Learning-Team, User-notice, Add-Link

Tue, Nov 21

Quiddity created T351770: Error with tests showing prior attachments.
Tue, Nov 21, 9:24 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team

Fri, Nov 17

Quiddity moved T347711: [Zebra] Enable refactored Zebra on certain wikis for testing purposes from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Nov 17, 8:00 PM · Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 3)

Thu, Nov 16

Quiddity awarded T337398: DEFAULTSORT not recognized by VisualEditor a Like token.
Thu, Nov 16, 11:16 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, Parsoid (Tracking), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T337398: DEFAULTSORT not recognized by VisualEditor from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 16, 11:16 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, Parsoid (Tracking), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity added a comment to T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators.

There's some feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Xtiir7e6iubumeqq asking for the CSS needed to replace the new styling with something less prominent.

Thu, Nov 16, 11:11 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity added a comment to T337398: DEFAULTSORT not recognized by VisualEditor.

Do you (anyone) have any suggested wording for the Tech News entry? I'd guess at something like this, but perhaps there is more detail to add?

Recent changes

  • The {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} system is working again in VisualEditor. (1) (2) (3)
Thu, Nov 16, 8:52 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice, Parsoid (Tracking), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T347711: [Zebra] Enable refactored Zebra on certain wikis for testing purposes from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 16, 6:49 PM · Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 3)
Quiddity added a comment to T347711: [Zebra] Enable refactored Zebra on certain wikis for testing purposes.

Proposed Tech News draft, please edit or approve, and (optionally) add any additional link that belongs within the text:

Changes this week

  • The skin Vector-2022 will have some CSS changes to enable future modifications. In the short-term this will result in some styling changes for: buttons on dropdown menus, backgrounds, and sidebar widths. These changes were added to a small set of wikis last week. If no issues are found, the changes will proceed to all wikis this week. (1)
Thu, Nov 16, 6:49 PM · Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 3)

Wed, Nov 15

Quiddity added a comment to T308141: Deploy "add a link" to 15th round of wikis.

Just to confirm for Tech News purposes: Is this releasing next week even though there isn't a deployment train next week (20 Nov)? Or does the Tech News entry need to be moved to the following week (27 Nov) instead?
(The current entry says "Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" [...]" (meaning 22 Nov). Thanks!

Wed, Nov 15, 10:31 PM · Growth-Team (Sprint 3 (Growth Team)), Machine-Learning-Team, User-notice, Add-Link

Tue, Nov 14

Quiddity added a comment to T315708: Edits to translated pages left unpatrolled.

This issue might have re-appeared? There's a fresh report at Meta_talk:Babylon about edits not being correctly autopatrolled. (I'm not sure if this needs a fresh task, or if it's a re-occurrence of the underlying issue here.)

Tue, Nov 14, 10:40 PM · Unplanned-Sprint-Work, MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22), Regression, Language-Team (Language-2022-July-September), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity closed T118539: "Watch" fails to autocomplete in Search due to non-standard reserved keys in Object.prototype in Firefox's JavaScript engine as Invalid.

Yup, seems to be resolved, somehow. Closing as no longer valid. Thanks!

Tue, Nov 14, 8:57 PM · Upstream, Phabricator (Upstream)
Quiddity added a comment to T347711: [Zebra] Enable refactored Zebra on certain wikis for testing purposes.

@ovasileva Thanks for the notes! How can we best squeeze that content down to just 1 bullet-point? (~3 sentences, 1-2 links)
Also, from this task's description and comments, I cannot tell whether the changes next week will affect just the four named Wikipedias (in which case a Tech News entry might not be efficient, and direct posts at those 4 wikis would suffice), or if any changes will be visible elsewhere?

Tue, Nov 14, 8:24 PM · Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022), User-notice, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 3)
Quiddity moved T350544: OOUI widgets now have huge fonts and misaligned buttons in some places from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Tue, Nov 14, 12:06 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), MediaWiki-General, OOUI
Quiddity moved T350695: "sessionfailure" errors on Meta and Commons from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Tue, Nov 14, 12:06 AM · User-notice, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-General
Quiddity moved T266798: [Event Platform] Enable canary events for all MediaWiki streams from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Tue, Nov 14, 12:06 AM · Data-Engineering (Sprint 5), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Analytics, Event-Platform

Thu, Nov 9

Quiddity moved T266798: [Event Platform] Enable canary events for all MediaWiki streams from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 11:43 PM · Data-Engineering (Sprint 5), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Analytics, Event-Platform
Quiddity added a comment to T344629: Top align buttons (expand/collapse and ellipsis) within mobile headings.

There's a new bug that I think might be related to this change? From a user-report at Enwiki:

Are my [expand / collapse][chevrons / carets] supposed to be misaligned with the section headings now on Minerva? (Android + Firefox, duplicated in Chrome). Just wondering if this is intentional.

Screenshot:

image.png (400×1 px, 104 KB)

Nuance: It seems to only affect some pages, not all. E.g.

Thu, Nov 9, 9:21 PM · Verified, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.4; 2023-11-07), Design, DiscussionTools
Quiddity added a comment to T266798: [Event Platform] Enable canary events for all MediaWiki streams.

What do you mean by 'it's still waiting for patch-merge'?

Thu, Nov 9, 8:17 PM · Data-Engineering (Sprint 5), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Analytics, Event-Platform
Quiddity moved T350544: OOUI widgets now have huge fonts and misaligned buttons in some places from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 8:01 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), MediaWiki-General, OOUI
Quiddity moved T350695: "sessionfailure" errors on Meta and Commons from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 8:01 PM · User-notice, MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-General
Quiddity moved T350598: Add an Image: Invalidate accepted suggestions from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 8:01 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.5; 2023-11-14), Growth-Team (Sprint 2 (Growth Team)), Community Feedback (Growth), Image-Suggestions
Quiddity moved T266798: [Event Platform] Enable canary events for all MediaWiki streams from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 8:00 PM · Data-Engineering (Sprint 5), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Analytics, Event-Platform
Quiddity added a comment to T266798: [Event Platform] Enable canary events for all MediaWiki streams.

Re: User-notice - Thank you for the draft-wording, that is greatly appreciated! I suggest changing the Pywikibot link from github to mediawiki-wiki, mostly so that we could link to a translatable page.
I initially didn't notice that it's still waiting for a patch-merge, so I drafted the entry. Please either ping me when it's ready (before mid-Friday) or add it directly (before mid-Friday), whichever week that happens.

Thu, Nov 9, 8:00 PM · Data-Engineering (Sprint 5), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Analytics, Event-Platform
Quiddity moved T330071: Mentorship: ensure that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 7:23 PM · Growth-Team, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.18; 2023-07-18), GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, Chinese-Sites
Quiddity moved T346062: [Visual change/refactor] Change 13px font-size in Vector toolbar to 14px from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 7:23 PM · User-notice-archive, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T350445: not possible to edit in the german language wikipedia from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 9, 7:23 PM · User-notice-archive, DBA

Mon, Nov 6

Quiddity added a comment to T316670: Collapsible heading styling should have clear: both to prevent weird bugs.

Ah, right, I mis-read the documentation. I've struck out part of my prior comment. Sorry about that.

Mon, Nov 6, 7:01 PM · good first task, Web-Team-Backlog, MinervaNeue

Fri, Nov 3

Quiddity added a comment to T316670: Collapsible heading styling should have clear: both to prevent weird bugs.

A related issue with images that aren't properly specified as "thumb" was recently noticed at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=1183369888#Highly_visible_mobile_bug
It sounds like matmarex's proposed solution would also help with that, as well as things like templates.

Fri, Nov 3, 10:06 PM · good first task, Web-Team-Backlog, MinervaNeue
Quiddity moved T350445: not possible to edit in the german language wikipedia from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Nov 3, 9:51 PM · User-notice-archive, DBA
Quiddity moved T330071: Mentorship: ensure that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Nov 3, 8:44 PM · Growth-Team, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.18; 2023-07-18), GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, Chinese-Sites

Thu, Nov 2

Quiddity added a comment to T330071: Mentorship: ensure that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor.

Re: Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content?
Please either let me know here, or add it directly to the upcoming edition (within ~24 hours, after which it will be frozen for translations). Thanks.

Thu, Nov 2, 9:32 PM · Growth-Team, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.18; 2023-07-18), GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, Chinese-Sites
Quiddity moved T346062: [Visual change/refactor] Change 13px font-size in Vector toolbar to 14px from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 2, 9:25 PM · User-notice-archive, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T349820: Switchover s4 master (db2179 -> db2140) from Not ready to announce to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 2, 9:22 PM · User-notice-archive, DBA
Quiddity moved T336203: Positive reinforcement: Deploy the new Impact module to all Wikipedias from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Thu, Nov 2, 9:22 PM · User-notice-archive, Growth-Team (Sprint 2 (Growth Team)), Growth-Positive-Reinforcement, GrowthExperiments-ImpactModule

Oct 27 2023

Quiddity added a comment to T349333: VRTS issue with incoming forwards from a Chapter address.

@jhathaway there's an example ticket-link, and some copied headers from that ticket, in the vrt-wiki thread: https://vrt-wiki.wikimedia.org/wiki/Administrator_requests#Whitelisting . It looks like you have an account on that wiki, so hopefully that helps? :)

Oct 27 2023, 10:09 PM · collaboration-services, Znuny

Oct 26 2023

Quiddity moved T349820: Switchover s4 master (db2179 -> db2140) from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Oct 26 2023, 10:37 PM · User-notice-archive, DBA
Quiddity updated subscribers of T349820: Switchover s4 master (db2179 -> db2140).

What's the date/timeline for this? -- n.b. That info is always needed. -- I wonder if it could be added to Maintenance_bot's default Task Descriptions?

Oct 26 2023, 10:34 PM · User-notice-archive, DBA
Quiddity moved T330071: Mentorship: ensure that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Oct 26 2023, 10:11 PM · Growth-Team, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.18; 2023-07-18), GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, Chinese-Sites
Quiddity added a comment to T346062: [Visual change/refactor] Change 13px font-size in Vector toolbar to 14px.

Re: User-notice/Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content, and when should it be included (i.e. both which week, and which section of the page)? That information is always needed. Thanks!
I've read the Task description and comments, and from a glance it looks like it's already live, so I think the entry would be located in the Recent Changes section of this upcoming edition, and worded something like this, but you may have better ideas (and perhaps extra links?), or clarifications (is it just 1 or 2 skins?):

Recent changes

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of all content in the Tools menu has been increased slightly to match the font-size used in page content. (1)
Oct 26 2023, 10:11 PM · User-notice-archive, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T346062: [Visual change/refactor] Change 13px font-size in Vector toolbar to 14px from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Oct 26 2023, 10:10 PM · User-notice-archive, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations
Quiddity moved T47514: ResourceLoader: Implement support for Source Maps from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 26 2023, 9:55 PM · User-notice-archive, Patch-For-Review, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, Front-end-Standards-Group, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Oct 20 2023

Quiddity moved T47514: ResourceLoader: Implement support for Source Maps from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Oct 20 2023, 8:47 PM · User-notice-archive, Patch-For-Review, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, Front-end-Standards-Group, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Oct 19 2023

Quiddity moved T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 19 2023, 6:21 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity moved T347889: Investigate why CentralAuth edge login fails in browsers that do not block third-party cookies from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 19 2023, 6:21 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
Quiddity moved T312587: Show edit notices within mobile editing interfaces from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 19 2023, 6:21 PM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-Editnotice, Technical-Debt, Goal, Design, MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Editing Design, MinervaNeue, MediaWiki-Page-editing, Mobile
Quiddity created T349333: VRTS issue with incoming forwards from a Chapter address.
Oct 19 2023, 5:42 PM · collaboration-services, Znuny

Oct 18 2023

Quiddity updated the task description for T348370: Language code for Wikifunctions natural language objects mixes different types of codes.
Oct 18 2023, 8:06 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, Wikifunctions
Quiddity updated the task description for T348370: Language code for Wikifunctions natural language objects mixes different types of codes.
Oct 18 2023, 7:59 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, Wikifunctions
Quiddity closed T334305: Phantom notification cannot be seen or marked as read at wikitech as Invalid.

No longer an issue for me at Wikitech. It self-resolved?

Oct 18 2023, 5:04 PM · Growth-Team, Notifications

Oct 17 2023

Quiddity awarded T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators a Like token.
Oct 17 2023, 4:08 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Oct 12 2023

Quiddity moved T312587: Show edit notices within mobile editing interfaces from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Oct 12 2023, 9:39 PM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-Editnotice, Technical-Debt, Goal, Design, MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Editing Design, MinervaNeue, MediaWiki-Page-editing, Mobile
Quiddity moved T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Oct 12 2023, 9:35 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity added a comment to T347889: Investigate why CentralAuth edge login fails in browsers that do not block third-party cookies.

@Tgr Thanks for the draft! Added (with slight tweaks) to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/42 -- Please edit that directly (and within ~24 hours), if needed.

Oct 12 2023, 8:24 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
Quiddity moved T347889: Investigate why CentralAuth edge login fails in browsers that do not block third-party cookies from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Oct 12 2023, 8:23 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth
Quiddity moved T308139: Deploy "add a link" to 14th round of wikis from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 12 2023, 6:00 PM · User-notice-archive, Growth-Team (Sprint 1 (Growth Team)), Machine-Learning-Team, Chinese-Sites, Add-Link
Quiddity moved T345940: Section-level "add an image" task: Scale to all Wikipedias that have the Article-level "add an image" task from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 12 2023, 6:00 PM · User-notice-archive, Section-Level-Image-Suggestions, Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team))
Quiddity moved T348267: Minerva HTML markup change: #page-actions is now #p-views from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 12 2023, 5:59 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Wikidata, User-notice, Wikidata-Termbox, Wikidata-Campsite, ExternalGuidance

Oct 11 2023

Quiddity claimed T329392: Proton: Notification to Community .
Oct 11 2023, 8:11 PM · CommRel-Specialists-Support (Oct-Dec-2023), API Platform (RESTbase Deprecation Roadmap), RESTBase Sunsetting

Oct 10 2023

Quiddity archived CommRel-Specialists-Support (Jul-Sep-2023).
Oct 10 2023, 4:21 PM

Oct 7 2023

Quiddity moved T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin from Not ready to announce to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Oct 7 2023, 1:01 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Oct 6 2023

Quiddity added a comment to T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin.

Ok, so a complete draft could be (please improve this if possible, or correct any inaccuracies or missing details ):

Future changes

  • In 2 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.
Oct 6 2023, 10:49 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity added a comment to T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin.

I'd like to include the context so that it might act as a memory-aid. Would something like this be accurate?

Code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated last year is now being removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are now missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

Oct 6 2023, 12:35 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity moved T348267: Minerva HTML markup change: #page-actions is now #p-views from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Oct 6 2023, 12:14 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Wikidata, User-notice, Wikidata-Termbox, Wikidata-Campsite, ExternalGuidance

Oct 5 2023

Quiddity added a comment to T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin.

Re: Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content, and when will the change go into effect? I'm unsure how to summarize. Thanks!

Oct 5 2023, 11:58 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity moved T347907: Drop support for addPortletLink with #p-namespaces in Vector 2022 skin from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Oct 5 2023, 11:58 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.3; 2023-10-31), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q2 Sprint 2), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Quiddity added a comment to T348267: Minerva HTML markup change: #page-actions is now #p-views.

Re: Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content? and when will the change occur (so that I know which section to put it in)?
(Suggested-Draft summaries always help me a lot and are deeply appreciated!)
After reading the task and patch description, my best guess is something like:

Future changes

  • In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions [has been/will be [when?]] replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.
Oct 5 2023, 11:44 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Wikidata, User-notice, Wikidata-Termbox, Wikidata-Campsite, ExternalGuidance
Quiddity moved T348267: Minerva HTML markup change: #page-actions is now #p-views from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Oct 5 2023, 11:43 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Wikidata, User-notice, Wikidata-Termbox, Wikidata-Campsite, ExternalGuidance
Quiddity moved T342347: Allow users to always enable safemode from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 5 2023, 11:29 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), affects-Miraheze, MediaWiki-Core-Preferences
Quiddity moved T331679: Communities can disable sharing of site/user scripts between Vector and Vector 2022 skins from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Oct 5 2023, 11:29 PM · User-notice
Quiddity moved T308139: Deploy "add a link" to 14th round of wikis from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Oct 5 2023, 11:28 PM · User-notice-archive, Growth-Team (Sprint 1 (Growth Team)), Machine-Learning-Team, Chinese-Sites, Add-Link

Oct 4 2023

Quiddity created T348198: Diff blog tag issues.
Oct 4 2023, 8:05 PM · Diff-blog

Oct 3 2023

Quiddity awarded T312587: Show edit notices within mobile editing interfaces a Love token.
Oct 3 2023, 12:16 AM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-Editnotice, Technical-Debt, Goal, Design, MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Editing Design, MinervaNeue, MediaWiki-Page-editing, Mobile

Sep 29 2023

Quiddity added a comment to T312587: Show edit notices within mobile editing interfaces.

@ppelberg I think we might need to rework that a bit. Ideally a Tech News item would primarily link to a translatable documentation page (not to Enwiki), and with specifics (i.e. avoiding "soon"). I'm also confused by the last sentence as the link just points back to this task and I cannot easily see where the "timing and the wikis" is documented here (But I might be overlooking it! Long day!).
It would be good if an announcement could:

  • link to wherever this new feature is documented on mediawiki-wiki,[1] which would include details such as:
    • if editors at each wiki need to do any setup, then give them steps/checklists to go thru
    • if editors in each language need to translate any new interface strings, then provide links to translatewiki for those
    • or, if it will work with all existing Editnotices without any extra onwiki-edits, then we could just write "edit notices will be shown on mobile web". [Sidenote: I believe this is just about MobileFrontend/Minerva, and not the Mobile Apps?]
  • Provide a clear and simple timeline for when it will arrive at which wiki(s).

Timing-wise, if there's not any new onwiki setup/translation requirements, then it could be announced the same week it starts to go live.
Hope that helps!
[1] possibly it belongs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice ?

Sep 29 2023, 2:03 AM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.30; 2023-10-10), Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-Editnotice, Technical-Debt, Goal, Design, MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend (Editor)), Editing Design, MinervaNeue, MediaWiki-Page-editing, Mobile

Sep 28 2023

Quiddity moved T331679: Communities can disable sharing of site/user scripts between Vector and Vector 2022 skins from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 28 2023, 11:08 PM · User-notice
Quiddity added a comment to T342347: Allow users to always enable safemode.

I've tweaked the entry to add a bit more context. It now says:

There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [1]

Sep 28 2023, 11:07 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), affects-Miraheze, MediaWiki-Core-Preferences
Quiddity awarded Blog Post: sentencex: Empowering NLP with Multilingual Sentence Extraction a Love token.
Sep 28 2023, 8:46 PM
Quiddity added a comment to T342347: Allow users to always enable safemode.

Thanks! I've added an entry to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/40
If any changes are needed to that, please do so (or tell me what to change) within the next ~25 hours, after which it will be frozen for translation.

Sep 28 2023, 6:21 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), affects-Miraheze, MediaWiki-Core-Preferences
Quiddity moved T342347: Allow users to always enable safemode from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 28 2023, 6:19 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), affects-Miraheze, MediaWiki-Core-Preferences
Quiddity removed a project from T251066: MediaWiki:Missing-revision should provide link to deleted revision for administrators: User-notice.
Sep 28 2023, 6:09 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.29; 2023-10-03), MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.10; 2020-09-22), Platform Team Workboards (External Code Reviews), MediaWiki-Page-deletion
Quiddity moved T63007: Allow specifying when a gadget should load (action, namespace, content model) from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 28 2023, 6:07 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.28; 2023-09-26), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets
Quiddity moved T345632: AbuseFilter "global_user_editcount" field can't be used during (auto)createaccount action (Introduce global_account_editcount) from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 28 2023, 6:07 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.28; 2023-09-26), MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth, AbuseFilter
Quiddity moved T346468: DEPRECATION: MediaWiki UI modules are to be replaced with Codex CSS components (gadgets) from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 28 2023, 6:07 PM · User-notice
Quiddity moved T316060: [anon prefs] TOC pinned / unpinned status should persist across page views for anonymous users from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 28 2023, 6:06 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2023-24 Q1 Sprint 6), Patch-For-Review, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
MPGuy2824 awarded T347367: ORES possibly blocking PetScan from loading? a Like token.
Sep 28 2023, 3:03 AM · Machine-Learning-Team, ORES
Quiddity added a member for acl*communityrelations_policy_admins: KStineRowe_WMF.
Sep 28 2023, 12:06 AM

Sep 26 2023

Quiddity added a comment to T63007: Allow specifying when a gadget should load (action, namespace, content model).

I've added temporary links at the Extension:Gadgets page, pointing here, until someone can properly document the new feature(s) in the table there. Please fix/improve if you can. Pinging main patch authors (IIUC) @BrandonXLF and @SD0001 in case you can help. Thanks!

Sep 26 2023, 5:33 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.28; 2023-09-26), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets
Quiddity awarded T345463: Enable wgMinervaEnableSiteNotice for wikifunctions a Love token.
Sep 26 2023, 4:16 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Quiddity created T347367: ORES possibly blocking PetScan from loading?.
Sep 26 2023, 12:50 AM · Machine-Learning-Team, ORES

Sep 22 2023

Quiddity added a comment to T344455: Delete Z110 and Z210.

Do we also need to update the entry for Z10 within https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Reserved_ZIDs to specify it has been [removed? deleted?] ? Or will it return in the future?

Sep 22 2023, 11:14 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team
Quiddity moved T63007: Allow specifying when a gadget should load (action, namespace, content model) from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 22 2023, 8:07 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.28; 2023-09-26), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets
Quiddity added a comment to T63007: Allow specifying when a gadget should load (action, namespace, content model).

@SD0001 Thanks! Added to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2023/39 - Note that is linking to the aforementioned https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets#Options which I believe needs to be updated with the exact new parameter(s).

Sep 22 2023, 8:07 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.28; 2023-09-26), Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation, Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers, MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets
Quiddity updated the task description for T347207: Automatically handle manual release notes for MediaWiki.
Sep 22 2023, 7:39 PM · Release-Engineering-Team (Priority Backlog 📥)