Ping @Reedy as I see some potentially related comments from you about the existence of a migration script (e.g. T141954 and T158594) plus an older script by Glaisher mentioned in T109060.
Would either of those scripts be usable to resolve this cleanup automatically?

@Tacsipacsi Good idea, done!

Perfect, thanks!

IIUC, that means that normal editors don't need to worry about this, but it might (?) affect bot-operators, and/or tool authors, and/or API users. Those affected users will need to check that their code doesn't invoke these now-retired options.

Added to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/25 - It will be frozen for translation in ~22 hours, so any edits are needed before then. Thanks!

Re: Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content? (I can't quite understand the result of this task just from reading the Description, and whether there are any actions-required from Tech News readers).
And when should it be included? (next Monday's edition needs to be finalized within ~24 hours)
Thanks!

1. I've updated the Description using your text (lightly formatted. Please edit further as desired!).
2. I've added an entry to Tech News with the proposed text above (please tell me if changes are needed, or edit directly, within ~24 hours)
3. Reminder to update the mw.org docs as/when needed.

Thanks!

Added with this description & link. Please let me know, or edit it within 24 hours, if changes are needed.

The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dot menu).

It looks like there's a 3-step workflow for making attached images public (if we used drag-and-drop to upload). I will test it on these 3 files, but leave out the original in the Description.

There is a comment about the wording of the new label "Delete account data" at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech#Misleading_user_settings_option_regarding_data_deletion -- In a nutshell, the editor describes why the new label is confusing and misleading, and should perhaps be reconsidered before it becomes widely translated.

In T130439#7993643, @Legoktm wrote:

This should get a mention in tech news, like the other new variables/functions have been getting.

Thanks Lucas! I think that draft might be a little bit too detailed, given the small audience, so what I'd suggest, is to:

• Copy that more detailed explanation into the top of this task's "Description" section,
• Use a simple headline for tech news, pointing here for more info. E.g.

Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.

I'm not certain if that is accurate, and this doesn't seem urgent, and it's your weekend, and other docs updates might be useful, so I'll postpone including this entry in Tech News until the following week's edition.

In T306589#7985442, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

Would be nice to have this in Tech News, some Quarry queries use this table.

Re: Tech News, 2 questions:

1. What wording would you suggest as the content? I would imagine something like this (but better suggestions, or confirmation, appreciated!)

The Wikipedia App for Android will now have an option for editing the whole page at once.

2. Timing – I hesitantly suggest putting it in next week's edition within the "Recent changes" section (instead of in the "Changes later this week" section, for this week), so that people can immediately check their installation to see it in action (instead of having to wait an unknown number of days).

Ok, I'll leave it in your hands. :-)
I'll remove the tech-news tag for now. (But as before, feel free to say it ought to be sent via this method!)

@Jdlrobson I believe the intent is just for the "unseen changes" number to (optionally) appear, not the total count of watched-pages.
I can imagine this would be a useful feature for editors who only watchlist either: A few pages which rarely change (and thus they might not regularly check their watchlist without a nudge to do so); or, a few high-urgency pages where they want to be almost-immediately aware of a change.

Hi @Daimona Alternatively, I'd suggest this request for feedback could be best sent directly to the talkpages of the abusefilter documentation pages. That would lead to the correct people seeing it in-situ, and reduce the distraction (and potential misunderstanding or alarm, or BEANS) among the wider movement.
Specifically, you could use this tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdmm/
along with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4582485 to create a MassMessage target list.
The full documentation for it is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_MassMessage_tool
Does that seem reasonable? If not, and you're certain it deserves an entry in Tech News, we can do that. Cheers.

FYI, someone from a school has left a message of appreciation for you/us at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech&oldid=23354622#Thank_you_letter_from_me_and_my_former_school_for_the_outstanding_browser_compatibility%2E – Copying:

By 2013, most computers at our school were already on Windows 7, but we also had older computers that still ran Windows 2000 and XP, with Internet Explorer 6. On some days, the newer computers were reserved, so we had no choice but to use the old Windows XP and 2000 computers.

On the old computers, we could usually not install a more modern browser, I guess due to lack of system privileges. Few of the computers had Opera or Firefox installed, but most did not. Many sites were broken and difficult to browse in Internet Explorer 6, but Wikipedia worked like a charm!

I can only imagine how much effort must have gone into persisting support for a decade-old browser, and for that, I and my then class mates and teachers would like to thank you. It was worth it! You spared us lots of headache!

Obviously, supporting IE6 today would not be worth it and the TLS 1.2 requirement prevents it from connecting anyway. But thanks for keeping it up as long as you did. Your team did an outstanding work.

Re: Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content, and When should it be included? Thanks! (The deadline for entries in the next edition, is ~24 hours from now)

@Jdlrobson Hiyo! I've updated the Global Searches in the task description to be namespace-specific. (because (a) Tech News mentioned two examples, so there were hundreds of new entries in the search results! (b) hopefully a few have been fixed since the last announcement!)

• Question: Please confirm that we only need to check these 3 namespaces: Template/User/MediaWiki ?

I used roughly this wording. If it needs to be removed before delivery on Monday, please let me know, or remove it directly. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2022/21
(Note: it is frozen for translation, so the wording should not be edited at this point. If rewording is needed, we can reschedule it for next week. Thanks!)

Complete!

Sorry, I intended those 2 examples to be examples, showing how it might be written (hence the "something like this, [...]")
Summaries are helpful, especially for people receiving this communication as a translation who don't speak English (natively or at all).
The more specific details a summary includes, the more likely it becomes that relevant people will spot a keyword that is important to them, and thus decide to spend their time reading (or reading a machine-translation) of the full page.
However, I will use your proposed wording for now. It can still be amended before it is frozen tomorrow, if needed.

For Tech News, how would you suggest describing this? I imagine something like this, but am unsure about which core details need to be highlighted:

Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy about code stability and naming standards. [1]

(Was too late for last week's Tech News. Untagging.)

If I understand correctly, this change will be going live on the deployment train next week.

3 questions/notes: