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Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270851">[9]</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/">Wikimedia REST API</a> users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:REST_API" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/API:REST API">MediaWiki REST API</a> endpoints. The <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374683" class="extiw" title="phab:T374683">impacted endpoints</a> include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374683" class="extiw" title="phab:T374683">Phabricator ticket</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>In depth</b> </p> <ul><li>Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Moderator_Tools/Automoderator#Usage" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Moderator Tools/Automoderator">where Automoderator is enabled</a> can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://superset.wmcloud.org/superset/dashboard/unified-automoderator-activity-dashboard/">This Superset dashboard</a> calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Moderator_Tools/Automoderator/Unified_Activity_Dashboard" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Moderator Tools/Automoderator/Unified Activity Dashboard">the documentation page</a> for more information about this work. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369488">[10]</a></li></ul> <p><b>Meetings and events</b> </p> <ul><li>21 November 2024 (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_21_November_2024_8:00_UTC" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons community discussion - 21 November 2024 8:00 UTC">8:00 UTC</a> & <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_21_November_2024_16:00_UTC" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons community discussion - 21 November 2024 16:00 UTC">16:00 UTC</a>) - <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Commons_community_calls" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:WMF support for Commons/Commons community calls">Community call</a> with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. 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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/47" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/47">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <ul><li>Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Redirects" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Redirects">redirect</a> to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326057">[11]</a></li> <li>View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks">resolved last week</a>. For example, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot/Overview" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot/Overview">Pywikibot</a>, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378676">[12]</a></li></ul> <p><b>Updates for technical contributors</b> </p> <ul><li>On wikis that use the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs">FlaggedRevs extension</a>, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379218">[13]</a><a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368380">[14]</a></li></ul> <p><b>In depth</b> </p> <ul><li>There is a new <a class="external text" href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/11/05/say-hi-to-temporary-accounts-easier-collaboration-with-logged-out-editors-with-better-privacy-protection">Diff post</a> about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.</li></ul> <p><b>Meetings and events</b> </p> <ul><li>Technical volunteers can now register for the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Hackathon 2025">2025 Wikimedia Hackathon</a>, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/hackathon2025/">Application for travel and accommodation scholarships</a> is open from <b>November 12 to December 10 2024</b>. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.</li> <li>Join the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Commons_community_calls" class="extiw" title="c:Special:MyLanguage/Commons:WMF support for Commons/Commons community calls">Wikimedia Commons community calls</a> this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place <b>November 21, 2024, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_21_November_2024_8:00_UTC" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons community discussion - 21 November 2024 8:00 UTC">8:00 UTC</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons_community_discussion_-_21_November_2024_16:00_UTC" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Event:Commons community discussion - 21 November 2024 16:00 UTC">16:00 UTC</a></b>.</li> <li>A <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Community meetings">Language community meeting</a> will take place <b>November 29, 16:00 UTC</b> to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.</li></ul> <p><i><b><a 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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/48" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/48">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <ul><li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Wishlist item"><img alt="Wishlist item" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Octicons-gift.svg/12px-Octicons-gift.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Octicons-gift.svg/18px-Octicons-gift.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Octicons-gift.svg/24px-Octicons-gift.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="896" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror">syntax highlighter</a> will be available as a <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures" title="Special:Preferences">beta feature</a> later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Template_folding" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror">template folding</a>, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror#Autocompletion" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror">autocompletion</a>, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror">help page</a>.</li> <li>The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>B</code></bdi> for bold and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>I</code></bdi> for italics. A full <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikiEditor#Keyboard_shortcuts" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Extension:WikiEditor">list of all six shortcuts</a> is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62928">[15]</a></li> <li>Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: <bdi>bswiki</bdi>, <bdi>elwiki</bdi>, <bdi>euwiki</bdi>, <bdi>fawiki</bdi>, <bdi>fiwiki</bdi>, <bdi>frwikiquote</bdi>, <bdi>frwikisource</bdi>, <bdi>frwikiversity</bdi>, <bdi>frwikivoyage</bdi>, <bdi>idwiki</bdi>, <bdi>lvwiki</bdi>, <bdi>plwiki</bdi>, <bdi>ptwiki</bdi>, <bdi>urwiki</bdi>, <bdi>viwikisource</bdi>, <bdi>zhwikisource</bdi>. This is done as part of <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions/Deprecation" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Structured Discussions/Deprecation">StructuredDiscussions deprecation work</a>. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)" class="extiw" title="m:User:Trizek (WMF)">Trizek (WMF)</a>.</li> <li>View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks">resolved last week</a>. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377765" class="extiw" title="phab:T377765">if it includes a protected variable</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>Updates for technical contributors</b> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor">CodeEditor</a>, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377663" class="extiw" title="phab:T377663">now offers</a> live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>,</code></bdi> and un-selecting "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">Live Autocompletion</bdi>".</li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Advanced item"><img alt="Advanced item" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Octicons-tools.svg/12px-Octicons-tools.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Octicons-tools.svg/18px-Octicons-tools.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Octicons-tools.svg/24px-Octicons-tools.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. 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