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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
12	Timeline of Shanghai Metro (talk)	Add sources
650	It's a Small World (talk)	Add sources
48	Kirkliston (talk)	Add sources
22	Dean Bridge (talk)	Add sources
236	Organoleptic (talk)	Add sources
285	Matterhorn Bobsleds (talk)	Add sources
11	Forth and Clyde Canal Pathway (talk)	Cleanup
30	M49 motorway (talk)	Cleanup
32	A417 road (talk)	Cleanup
29	Transport in Edinburgh (talk)	Expand
4	Barrhead (New) railway station (talk)	Expand
2,593	Blu-ray (talk)	Expand
19	History of the Crossrail project (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
257	Fantasmic! (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
67	Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
13	Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro (talk)	Merge
26	Imaging spectroscopy (talk)	Merge
6	Mahbubur Rahman (general) (talk)	Merge
13	South Bristol, England (talk)	Wikify
98	Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (talk)	Wikify
5	Edwinstowe railway station (talk)	Wikify
2	A Totally Hermetic Electron-Nucleus Apparatus (talk)	Orphan
1	Bylderup Parish (talk)	Orphan
2	Amdibyana (Jayshan) (talk)	Orphan
7	Shendu Highway station (talk)	Stub
5	Zhangjiang Road station (talk)	Stub
4	West Youyi Road station (talk)	Stub
7	Kickxia spuria (talk)	Stub
3	Zizhu Hi-tech Park station (talk)	Stub
4	Pengpu Xincun station (talk)	Stub

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Your draft article, Draft:M1 Cribbs Causeway–Hengrove Park

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Tech News: 2024-05

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Recent changes

Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [2][3]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [4]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [5]

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Tech News: 2024-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [6][7]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [8][9]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [10]

Future changes

24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [11][12]

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
290	Unturned (talk)	Add sources
8,098	Baldur's Gate 3 (talk)	Add sources
20	Line 16 (Beijing Subway) (talk)	Add sources
13	Totnes railway station (talk)	Add sources
315	2023 Arlington house explosion (talk)	Add sources
297	Dark ride (talk)	Add sources
31	M48 motorway (talk)	Cleanup
272	Disneyland Park (Paris) (talk)	Cleanup
380	M6 motorway (talk)	Cleanup
75	Nanjing Metro (talk)	Expand
42	McGill's Bus Services (talk)	Expand
5	Shanghai Rego International School (talk)	Expand
45	Whitehall, Dublin (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,528	Web development (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9	Chappel & Wakes Colne railway station (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
125	Maltase (talk)	Merge
8	Battle of Fort Albany (1693) (talk)	Merge
5	Ludwig Czerny (talk)	Merge
713	Cloud9 IDE (talk)	Wikify
133	History of the roller coaster (talk)	Wikify
132	GDevelop (talk)	Wikify
3	Kingsweston Iron Bridge (talk)	Orphan
2	126 Wells - Axbridge (talk)	Orphan
1	AspS RNA motif (talk)	Orphan
27	Line 1 (Wuxi Metro) (talk)	Stub
3	Yanchang Road station (talk)	Stub
2	Waihuanlu station (talk)	Stub
3	Zhongke Road station (talk)	Stub
4	North Zhongshan Road station (talk)	Stub
3	A923 road (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2024-07

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The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [13][14][15] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [16][17]

Problems

There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [18][19]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[20] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [21]

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Your draft article, Draft:232 Daffodil Line

Hello, Garuda3. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "232 Daffodil Line".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:33, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08

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Recent changes

If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [22]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [23]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [24][25]

Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [26]

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
405	Shanghai Metro (talk)	Add sources
33	Shanghai Public Transport Card (talk)	Add sources
36	Newbridge, Edinburgh (talk)	Add sources
2	Daduhe Road station (talk)	Add sources
4	Nantong West railway station (talk)	Add sources
3	Hongxin Road station (talk)	Add sources
16	Bowes Railway (talk)	Cleanup
13	Bridgwater railway station (talk)	Cleanup
103	A40 road (talk)	Cleanup
20	Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region intercity railway (talk)	Expand
25	Shanghai South railway station (talk)	Expand
346	A1 road (Great Britain) (talk)	Expand
20	Jaguar! (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
36	Oceana (nightclub) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
686	URL shortening (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,070	HMV (talk)	Merge
14	Tropical Depression Two-E (2006) (talk)	Merge
13	1986 Pacific hurricane season (talk)	Merge
59	Shanghai railway station (talk)	Wikify
18	Penistone railway station (talk)	Wikify
23	British quarrying and mining narrow-gauge railways (talk)	Wikify
4	Amaramkavu (talk)	Orphan
3	Carabus babao (talk)	Orphan
6	Aloor, Ranga Reddy district (talk)	Orphan
17	Line 14 (Shanghai Metro) (talk)	Stub
5	Shanghai South Railway Station metro station (talk)	Stub
3	West Huajing station (talk)	Stub
2	Lianxi Road station (talk)	Stub
2	Wenshui Road station (talk)	Stub
4	Fujin Road station (talk)	Stub

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Your draft article, Draft:T4 Cardiff–Newtown

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Tech News: 2024-09

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The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [27]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [28]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [29][30]

Future changes

The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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Tech News: 2024-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [31]
Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [32]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [33]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [34][35]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [36]
The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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