Hello @Tgr @Vesperio_ofc, responding to the usernotice tag. How will this be worded? Also are we featuring this in this week's tech news?

Thank you, can I get one line on what the benefit of this deployment is for users? As in what is the benefit of now having Lua in Wikimedia's GitLab? >>! In T421436#12336266, @tstarling wrote:

Produnto has been deployed to mediawiki.org and five Indic language wikis. We want to hear your feedback on this experimental product. Produnto allows users to use Lua modules hosted in Wikimedia's GitLab.

Hello @DLynch, I'm responding to the user notice tag; how should we word this announcement?

@tstarling can you provide a draft please?

@Ragesoss this is one of the dashboard links: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedistas_de_la_Universidad_Nacional_de_La_Plata/Desaf%C3%ADo_Wikimedista_WikiUNLP

@taavi, done: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2026/38

This is how I have interpreted your instruction as an entry:

Hello @doctaxon, I am responding to the user notice tag. Please propose how we should word this for Tech News. The recommended entry structure is to summarize the key points clearly in 1–4 sentences. The entry should answer the following questions for readers:

Hello @Soda, I am responding to the user notice tag. Please propose how we should word this for Tech News. The recommended entry structure is to summarize the key points clearly in 1–4 sentences. The entry should answer the following questions for readers:

@EBernhardson, thank you!

@EBernhardson can we add more details?:

@SD0001, if you do not mind, please go ahead and edit the text to make it accurate.

@EBernhardson, I am responding to the usernotice tag. Please provide an entry to be added to the tech news draft.

Please check the accuracy:

@Ladsgroup @MatthewVernon thank you, I wrote it as:

@abi_ this bug fix may be captured in tech news. Please see if this draft captures what has been achieved here:

To make it easier for translators, I have expanded it as follows, please check for accuracy:

In T148047#12228376, @Ladsgroup wrote:

I forgot I need to set the variable first. So the patch demo wouldn't work. But tested locally and works as expected.

@EMill-WMF yes we can.

@sbassett I will need a bit more info/clarity. Please see if this version is ok:

@Tgr responding to user notice. How are we wording this?

@KStoller-WMF please see thread and confirm if this should be posted.

@Ladsgroup would I be correct by summarising this work as: "An issue where larger files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons could fail to publish with a “Could not acquire lock” error, has now been fixed."?

@Krinkle well noted, thanks for breakdown.

@neriah there is feedback about this change on Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/27/tech-news-2026-issue-31/#comments. You might want to check it out.

@Ladsgroup is this accurate:

Hello @Krinkle, please see if the rewritten entry is accurate: