CINXE.COM
User talk:Kwj2772 - Wikimedia Commons
<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs vector-feature-language-in-header-disabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-disabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-sticky-header-enabled vector-toc-available" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>User talk:Kwj2772 - Wikimedia Commons</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js vector-feature-language-in-header-disabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-disabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-sticky-header-enabled vector-toc-available";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )commonswikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy", "wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"23de73d1-768e-4c42-94ac-28d57e8c9084","wgCanonicalNamespace":"User_talk","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":3,"wgPageName":"User_talk:Kwj2772","wgTitle":"Kwj2772","wgCurRevisionId":999603989,"wgRevisionId":999603989,"wgArticleId":2621828,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Noindexed user pages"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"User_talk:Kwj2772","wgRelevantArticleId":2621828,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgRelevantUserName":"Kwj2772","wgNoticeProject":"commons","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":true,"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":false,"wgVisualEditor":{ "pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":true,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":30000,"upwizPropertyTitles":{"P180":"Main subjects visible in this work"},"upwizPropertyPlaceholders":{"P180":"e.g., Angolan giraffe"},"upwizPropertyCopyLabels":{"P180":"Main subjects"},"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgDiscussionToolsFeaturesEnabled":{"replytool":true,"newtopictool":true,"sourcemodetoolbar":true,"topicsubscription":false,"autotopicsub":false,"visualenhancements":false,"visualenhancements_reply":false,"visualenhancements_pageframe":false},"wgDiscussionToolsFallbackEditMode":"source","wgULSPosition":"personal","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":true,"wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":false,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":true,"wbmiDefaultProperties":["P180"],"wbmiPropertyTitles":{"P180":"Items portrayed in this file"},"wbmiPropertyTypes":{ "P180":"wikibase-item"},"wbmiRepoApiUrl":"/w/api.php","wbmiHelpUrls":{"P180":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Depicts"},"wbmiExternalEntitySearchBaseUri":"https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php","wbmiSupportedDataTypes":["wikibase-item","string","quantity","time","monolingualtext","external-id","globe-coordinate","url"],"wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"]};RLSTATE={"ext.gadget.Long-Image-Names-in-Categories":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","ext.discussionTools.init.styles":"ready","oojs-ui-core.styles":"ready","oojs-ui.styles.indicators":"ready","mediawiki.widgets.styles":"ready","oojs-ui-core.icons":"ready","skins.vector.search.codex.styles":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","skins.vector.icons":"ready", "ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","ext.uls.pt":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["mediawiki.page.media","site","mediawiki.page.ready","mediawiki.toc","skins.vector.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.Slideshow","ext.gadget.ZoomViewer","ext.gadget.CollapsibleTemplates","ext.gadget.fastcci","ext.gadget.Stockphoto","ext.gadget.WatchlistNotice","ext.gadget.AjaxQuickDelete","ext.gadget.WikiMiniAtlas","ext.gadget.LanguageSelect","ext.gadget.PictureOfTheYearEnhancements","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.discussionTools.init","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.wikimediaEvents.wikibase","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.compactlinks","ext.uls.interface","ext.checkUser.clientHints"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.discussionTools.init.styles%7Cext.uls.pt%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cmediawiki.widgets.styles%7Coojs-ui-core.icons%2Cstyles%7Coojs-ui.styles.indicators%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.gadget.Long-Image-Names-in-Categories&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.17"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow,max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="User talk:Kwj2772 - Wikimedia Commons"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit" href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/commons.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/commons.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikimedia Commons"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikimedia Commons Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="ext-discussiontools-replytool-enabled ext-discussiontools-newtopictool-enabled ext-discussiontools-sourcemodetoolbar-enabled skin--responsive skin-vector skin-vector-search-vue mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-3 ns-talk mw-editable page-User_talk_Kwj2772 rootpage-User_talk_Kwj2772 skin-vector-2022 action-view"><a class="mw-jump-link" href="#bodyContent">Jump to content</a> <div class="vector-header-container"> <header class="vector-header mw-header"> <div class="vector-header-start"> <nav class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-main-menu-dropdown vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" title="Main menu" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Main menu" > <label id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-label" for="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-menu mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-menu"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Main menu</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-main-menu vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-main-menu-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="main-menu-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-main-menu" data-pinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Main menu</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-navigation" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Navigate </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z"><span>Main page</span></a></li><li id="n-welcome" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Welcome"><span>Welcome</span></a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Community_portal" title="About the project, what you can do, where to find things"><span>Community portal</span></a></li><li id="n-village-pump" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Village_pump"><span>Village pump</span></a></li><li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents" title="The place to find out"><span>Help center</span></a></li><li id="n-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages"><span>Special pages</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-participate" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-participate" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Participate </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-uploadbtn" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:UploadWizard"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r"><span>Recent changes</span></a></li><li id="n-latestfiles" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:NewFiles"><span>Latest files</span></a></li><li id="n-randomimage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random/File" title="Load a random file [x]" accesskey="x"><span>Random file</span></a></li><li id="n-contact" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Contact_us"><span>Contact us</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-menu " > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" class="mw-logo"> <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/commonswiki.svg" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50"> <span class="mw-logo-container skin-invert"> <img class="mw-logo-wordmark" alt="Wikimedia Commons" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/commonswiki-wordmark.svg" style="width: 7.1875em; height: 2em;"> </span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-header-end"> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-collapses vector-search-box"> <a href="/wiki/Special:MediaSearch" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only search-toggle" title="Search Wikimedia Commons [f]" accesskey="f"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </a> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikimedia Commons" aria-label="Search Wikimedia Commons" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikimedia Commons [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:MediaSearch"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-user-links vector-user-links-wide" aria-label="Personal tools"> <div class="vector-user-links-main"> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-preferences" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-uls" class="mw-list-item active user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="#" class="uls-trigger cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-language"></span> <span>English</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-userpage" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown " title="Change the appearance of the page's font size, width, and color" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Appearance" > <label id="vector-appearance-dropdown-label" for="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-appearance mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-appearance"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Appearance</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-notifications" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-overflow" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=commons.wikimedia.org&uselang=en" class=""><span>Donate</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-createaccount-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=User+talk%3AKwj2772" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory" class=""><span>Create account</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-login-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=User+talk%3AKwj2772" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o" class=""><span>Log in</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-user-menu vector-button-flush-right vector-user-menu-logged-out" title="More options" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Personal tools" > <label id="vector-user-links-dropdown-label" for="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-ellipsis mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-ellipsis"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Personal tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal user-links-collapsible-item" title="User menu" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=commons.wikimedia.org&uselang=en"><span>Donate</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=User+talk%3AKwj2772" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-userAdd mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-userAdd"></span> <span>Create account</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=User+talk%3AKwj2772" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-logIn mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-logIn"></span> <span>Log in</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-user-menu-anon-editor" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-user-menu-anon-editor" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Pages for logged out editors <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" aria-label="Learn more about editing"><span>learn more</span></a> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y"><span>Contributions</span></a></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </header> </div> <div class="mw-page-container"> <div class="mw-page-container-inner"> <div class="vector-sitenotice-container"> <div id="siteNotice"><!-- CentralNotice --></div> </div> <div class="vector-column-start"> <div class="vector-main-menu-container"> <div id="mw-navigation"> <nav id="mw-panel" class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav id="mw-panel-toc" aria-label="Contents" data-event-name="ui.sidebar-toc" class="mw-table-of-contents-container vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-toc-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-toc" class="vector-toc vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-toc-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="toc-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-toc" > <h2 class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Contents</h2> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.unpin">hide</button> </div> <ul class="vector-toc-contents" id="mw-panel-toc-list"> <li id="toc-mw-content-text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a href="#" class="vector-toc-link"> <div class="vector-toc-text">Beginning</div> </a> </li> <li id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-04" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tech_News:_2025-04"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1</span> <span>Tech News: 2025-04</span> </div> </a> <span class="ext-discussiontools-init-sidebar-meta">1 comment</span> <ul id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-04-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-05" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tech_News:_2025-05"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Tech News: 2025-05</span> </div> </a> <span class="ext-discussiontools-init-sidebar-meta">1 comment</span> <ul id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-05-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-06" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tech_News:_2025-06"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Tech News: 2025-06</span> </div> </a> <span class="ext-discussiontools-init-sidebar-meta">1 comment</span> <ul id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-06-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Signpost:_7_February_2025"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span><i>The Signpost</i>: 7 February 2025</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-07" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tech_News:_2025-07"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Tech News: 2025-07</span> </div> </a> <span class="ext-discussiontools-init-sidebar-meta">1 comment</span> <ul id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-07-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-08" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tech_News:_2025-08"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Tech News: 2025-08</span> </div> </a> <span class="ext-discussiontools-init-sidebar-meta">1 comment</span> <ul id="toc-Tech_News:_2025-08-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">User talk</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Kwj2772</span></h1> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-user" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User:Kwj2772" title="View the user page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>User page</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Discussion</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation" class="vector-collapsible"> <nav aria-label="Views"> <div id="p-views" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-views" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="istalk vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-addsection" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=new" title="Start a new section [+]" accesskey="+"><span>Add topic</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-label" for="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-page-tools" class="vector-page-tools vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-page-tools-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="page-tools-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-page-tools" data-pinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Tools</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-cactions" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-has-collapsible-items" title="More options" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Actions </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-more-view" class="selected vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-edit" class="istalk vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-addsection" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=new"><span>Add topic</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-history" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=history"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/User_talk:Kwj2772" title="A list of all wiki pages that link here [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/User_talk:Kwj2772" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="tb-uploads" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Kwj2772&ilshowall=1" title="A list of uploads by this user"><span>User uploads</span></a></li><li id="t-contributions" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kwj2772" title="A list of contributions by this user"><span>User contributions</span></a></li><li id="t-log" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Log/Kwj2772"><span>Logs</span></a></li><li id="t-userrights" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/Kwj2772"><span>View user groups</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&oldid=999603989" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUser_talk%3AKwj2772"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUser_talk%3AKwj2772"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-create_a_book" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=User+talk%3AKwj2772"><span>Create a book</span></a></li><li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=User_talk%3AKwj2772&action=show-download-screen"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-appearance-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="appearance-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r916187265">.mw-parser-output .autoarchive-resolved-section{margin-bottom:0.4em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:var(--color-base,#202122);width:100%}.mw-parser-output .autoarchive-resolved-section.ars-hide{display:none}.mw-parser-output .autoarchive-resolved-section .ars-icon{padding:2px;width:34px}.mw-parser-output .autoarchive-resolved-section .ars-tracking{display:none}.mw-parser-output .autoarchiv-erledigt-fehler strong{color:red}</style> </p> <table id="autoarchiv-erledigt-baustein" class="autoarchive-resolved-section layouttemplate" dir="ltr" lang="en"> <tbody><tr> <td class="ars-icon"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Filing_cabinet_icon.svg/30px-Filing_cabinet_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Filing_cabinet_icon.svg/45px-Filing_cabinet_icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Filing_cabinet_icon.svg/60px-Filing_cabinet_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"/></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:SpBot" title="User:SpBot">SpBot</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Talk_page_guidelines#Archiving" title="Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Talk page guidelines">archives</a> all sections tagged with <bdi lang="en">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Section_resolved" title="Template:Section resolved">Section resolved</a>|1=~~~~}}</bdi> after 5 days. For the archive overview, see <b><a href="/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User_talk:Kwj2772/" title="Special:PrefixIndex/User talk:Kwj2772/">Archives</a></b>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="layouttemplate" style="margin:2px 0; padding:7px; border:solid #aaa 1px; background:#efefef; width: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 60px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commons-emblem-notice.svg/48px-Commons-emblem-notice.svg.png" decoding="async" width="48" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commons-emblem-notice.svg/72px-Commons-emblem-notice.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commons-emblem-notice.svg/96px-Commons-emblem-notice.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></span></span> </td> <td> <ul><li>Urgent matter: <b><a href="/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Kwj2772" title="Special:EmailUser/Kwj2772">Email me</a></b>.</li> <li>(Non-urgent matter) Admin request: → <a href="/wiki/Commons:AN" class="mw-redirect" title="Commons:AN">Administrators' noticeboard</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONDESKTOP__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-04","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-04"}--><h2 id="Tech_News:_2025-04" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300"></span>Tech News: 2025-04<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Tech News: 2025-04"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04"]}}--><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"><!--__DTLATESTCOMMENTTHREAD__{"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04","timestamp":"20250121013300"}__--><!--__DTCOMMENTCOUNT__1__--><!--__DTAUTHORCOUNT__1__--></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONMOBILE__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-04","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-04"}--></div></div></div> <div class="plainlinks"> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04"></span>Latest <b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></b> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/04" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/04">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <ul><li>Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Nuke" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Nuke">Extension:Nuke</a>. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380846">[1]</a></li> <li>On <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P72148" class="extiw" title="phab:P72148">wikis that use</a> the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Patrolled_edits" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Patrolled edits">Patrolled edits</a> feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:New filters for edit review/Filtering">filters</a> on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302140">[2]</a></li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Recurrent item"><img alt="Recurrent item" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/12px-Octicons-sync.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/18px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/24px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> View all 31 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, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383497" class="extiw" title="phab:T383497">fixed</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>Updates for technical contributors</b> </p> <ul><li>The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools">DiscussionTools</a>, which is used on any regular talk page. <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions/Deprecation#Deprecation_timeline" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Structured Discussions/Deprecation">The last group of wikis</a> (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)" class="extiw" title="m:User:Trizek (WMF)">Trizek (WMF)</a> at your wiki. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380912">[3]</a></li> <li>The latest quarterly <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2025/January" class="extiw" title="mw:Technical Community Newsletter/2025/January">Technical Community Newsletter</a> is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.</li></ul> <p><i><b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></b> prepared by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery">bot</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Contribute</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/04" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/04">Translate</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Tech">Get help</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</i> </p> </div> <p><bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" title="User:MediaWiki message delivery">MediaWiki message delivery</a></bdi> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772#c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:33, 21 January 2025 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250121013300","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04","replies":[]}}--></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONDESKTOP__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-05","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-05"}--><h2 id="Tech_News:_2025-05" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100"></span>Tech News: 2025-05<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tech News: 2025-05"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05"]}}--><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"><!--__DTLATESTCOMMENTTHREAD__{"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05","timestamp":"20250127221100"}__--><!--__DTCOMMENTCOUNT__1__--><!--__DTAUTHORCOUNT__1__--></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONMOBILE__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-05","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-05"}--></div></div></div> <div class="plainlinks"> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05"></span>Latest <b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></b> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/05" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/05">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Weekly highlight</b> </p> <ul><li>Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2025-2026/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2025-2026/Product & Technology OKRs">13 other questions</a> to shape the technical direction for next year.</li></ul> <p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <ul><li>iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Personalized_Wikipedia_Year_in_Review/How_your_data_is_used" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Apps/Team/iOS/Personalized Wikipedia Year in Review/How your data is used">personalized Year in Review</a> feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.</li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Wishlist item"><img alt="Wishlist item" src="https://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="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Octicons-gift.svg/18px-Octicons-gift.svg.png 1.5x, https://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> Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in <a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">Special:RecentChanges</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special:NewPages" title="Special:NewPages">Special:NewPages</a>. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56145">[4]</a></li> <li>Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Redirects#Double_redirects" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Redirects">double redirect</a>). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326056">[5]</a></li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Advanced item"><img alt="Advanced item" src="https://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="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Octicons-tools.svg/18px-Octicons-tools.svg.png 1.5x, https://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> Wikimedia wikis allow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WebAuthn" class="extiw" title="w:en:WebAuthn">WebAuthn</a>-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Miscellaneous/Fix_security_key_(WebAuthn)_support" class="extiw" title="m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Miscellaneous/Fix security key (WebAuthn) support">fragile</a> and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Platform_Team/SUL3" class="extiw" title="mw:MediaWiki Platform Team/SUL3">SUL3</a> (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378402">[6]</a></li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Recurrent item"><img alt="Recurrent item" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/12px-Octicons-sync.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/18px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/24px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> View all 30 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>.</li></ul> <p><b>Updates for technical contributors</b> </p> <ul><li>For developers that use the <a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Platform/Data_Lake/Edits/MediaWiki_history_dumps" class="extiw" title="wikitech:Data Platform/Data Lake/Edits/MediaWiki history dumps">MediaWiki History dumps</a>: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts">Temporary Accounts</a> initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mediawiki_user_history</code></bdi> dump, the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>anonymous</code></bdi> field will be renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>is_anonymous</code></bdi>. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LKMFDS62TXGDN6L56F4ABXYLN7CSCQDI/">[7]</a></li></ul> <p><i><b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></b> prepared by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery">bot</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Contribute</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/05" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/05">Translate</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Tech">Get help</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</i> </p> </div> <p><bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" title="User:MediaWiki message delivery">MediaWiki message delivery</a></bdi> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772#c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:11, 27 January 2025 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250127221100","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05","replies":[]}}--></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONDESKTOP__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-06","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-06"}--><h2 id="Tech_News:_2025-06" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500"></span>Tech News: 2025-06<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tech News: 2025-06"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06"]}}--><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"><!--__DTLATESTCOMMENTTHREAD__{"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06","timestamp":"20250204000500"}__--><!--__DTCOMMENTCOUNT__1__--><!--__DTAUTHORCOUNT__1__--></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONMOBILE__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-06","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-06"}--></div></div></div> <div class="plainlinks"> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06"></span>Latest <b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></b> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/06" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/06">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <ul><li>Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110722">[8]</a></li> <li>Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.<a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380438">[9]</a> You can now also insert <code><code></code> tags using a new toolbar button.<a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383010">[10]</a> Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.</li> <li>Help is needed to ensure the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling Citoid on your wiki">citation generator</a> works properly on each wiki. <ul><li>(1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page <code dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json</code> to include entries for <code dir="ltr">preprint</code>, <code dir="ltr">standard</code>, and <code dir="ltr">dataset</code>; Here are example diffs to replicate <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACitoid-template-type-map.json&diff=1189164774&oldid=1165783565">for 'preprint'</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACitoid-template-type-map.json&diff=1270832208&oldid=1270828390">for 'standard' and 'dataset'</a>.</li> <li>(2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki#Step_2.a:_Create_a_'citoid'_maps_value_for_each_citation_template" class="extiw" title="mediawikiwiki:Citoid/Enabling Citoid on your wiki">one will need to be added</a>. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ACitation%2Fdoc&diff=1270829051&oldid=1262470053">for 'preprint'</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ACitation%2Fdoc&diff=1270831369&oldid=1270829480">for 'standard' and 'dataset'</a>. The new fields that may need to be supported are <code dir="ltr">archiveID</code>, <code dir="ltr">identifier</code>, <code dir="ltr">repository</code>, <code dir="ltr">organization</code>, <code dir="ltr">repositoryLocation</code>, <code dir="ltr">committee</code>, and <code dir="ltr">versionNumber</code>. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383666">[11]</a></li></ul></li> <li>One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15637215" class="extiw" title="d:Q15637215">Central Kanuri</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/knc:" class="extiw" title="w:knc:"><code>w:knc:</code></a>) <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385181">[12]</a></li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Recurrent item"><img alt="Recurrent item" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/12px-Octicons-sync.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/18px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/24px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> View all 27 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, the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Wikisource/Wikimedia_OCR" class="extiw" title="mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Wikisource/Wikimedia OCR">OCR (optical character recognition) tool</a> used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384782">[13]</a></li></ul> <p><i><b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></b> prepared by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery">bot</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Contribute</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/06" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/06">Translate</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Tech">Get help</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</i> </p> </div> <p><bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" title="User:MediaWiki message delivery">MediaWiki message delivery</a></bdi> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772#c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:05, 4 February 2025 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250204000500","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06","replies":[]}}--></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="The_Signpost:_7_February_2025" data-mw-thread-id="h-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025"></span><i>The Signpost</i>: 7 February 2025<span data-mw-comment-end="h-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Signpost: 7 February 2025"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025","replies":[]}}--></div> <div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg/40px-WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg/60px-WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg/80px-WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="46" data-file-height="55"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <i>News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper</i></div> <div style="column-count:2;"> <ul><li>Recent research: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Recent_research" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Recent research">GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians</a></li></ul> <ul><li>News and notes: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/News_and_notes" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/News and notes">Let's talk!</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Opinion: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Opinion" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Opinion">Fathoms Below, but over the moon</a></li></ul> <ul><li>In the media: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/In_the_media" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/In the media">Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Community view: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Community_view" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Community view">24th Wikipedia Day in New York City</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Arbitration report: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Arbitration_report" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Arbitration report">Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Traffic report: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Traffic_report" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Traffic report">A wild drive</a></li></ul> </div> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost">Read this Signpost in full</a></b> · <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Signpost/Single" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Signpost/Single">Single-page</a> · <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Signpost" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Signpost">Unsubscribe</a> · <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery">Global message delivery</a> 01:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC) </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONDESKTOP__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-07","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-07"}--><h2 id="Tech_News:_2025-07" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800"></span>Tech News: 2025-07<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Tech News: 2025-07"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07"]}}--><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"><!--__DTLATESTCOMMENTTHREAD__{"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07","timestamp":"20250211000800"}__--><!--__DTCOMMENTCOUNT__1__--><!--__DTAUTHORCOUNT__1__--></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONMOBILE__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-07","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-07"}--></div></div></div> <div class="plainlinks"> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07"></span>Latest <b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></b> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/07" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/07">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Weekly highlight</b> </p> <ul><li>The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Council/February_2025_draft_PTAC_recommendation_for_feedback" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council/February 2025 draft PTAC recommendation for feedback">a draft of their recommendations</a> for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Council/February_2025_draft_PTAC_recommendation_for_feedback/Mobile_experiences" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Product and Technology Advisory Council/February 2025 draft PTAC recommendation for feedback/Mobile experiences">mobile experiences</a>, particularly contributions. They request community <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Council/February_2025_draft_PTAC_recommendation_for_feedback" class="extiw" title="m:Talk:Product and Technology Advisory Council/February 2025 draft PTAC recommendation for feedback">feedback at the talk page</a> by 21 February.</li></ul> <p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <ul><li>The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385346" class="extiw" title="phab:T385346">T385346</a>. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333211">[14]</a></li> <li>As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Content_Discovery_Experiments#Experiment_1:_Display_article_recommendations_in_more_prominent_locations,_search" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Content Discovery Experiments">the project page</a> for more information.</li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Advanced item"><img alt="Advanced item" src="https://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="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Octicons-tools.svg/18px-Octicons-tools.svg.png 1.5x, https://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> Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (<code dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion">prefers-reduced-motion</a></code>, <code dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-transparency">prefers-reduced-transparency</a></code>, <code dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-contrast">prefers-contrast</a></code>, and <code dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/forced-colors">forced-colors</a></code>). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384175">[15]</a></li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Recurrent item"><img alt="Recurrent item" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/12px-Octicons-sync.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/18px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/24px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> View all 22 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, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377024">[16]</a></li></ul> <p><b>Updates for technical contributors</b> </p> <ul><li>Wikidata <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Default_values_for_labels_and_aliases" class="extiw" title="d:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Default values for labels and aliases">now supports a special language as a "default for all languages"</a> for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312511">[17]</a></li> <li>The function <code dir="ltr">getDescription</code> was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383660">[18]</a></li> <li>As part of the RESTBase deprecation <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase/deprecation" class="extiw" title="mw:RESTBase/deprecation">effort</a>, the <code dir="ltr">/page/related</code> endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "<code dir="ltr">morelike</code>" action API in MediaWiki, and <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/%2B/982154/13/pagelib/src/transform/FooterReadMore.js" class="extiw" title="gerrit:c/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/+/982154/13/pagelib/src/transform/FooterReadMore.js">a migration example</a> is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376297" class="extiw" title="phab:T376297">can be contacted</a> for any questions. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GFC2IJO7L4BWO3YTM7C5HF4MCCBE2RJ2/">[19]</a></li></ul> <p><b>In depth</b> </p> <ul><li>The latest quarterly <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter/2025/January" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January">Language and Internationalization newsletter</a> is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.</li> <li>The latest <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates#January_2025:_Better_visibility_into_charts_and_tabular_data_usage" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Chart/Project/Updates">Chart Project newsletter</a> is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.</li></ul> <p><i><b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></b> prepared by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery">bot</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Contribute</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/07" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/07">Translate</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Tech">Get help</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</i> </p> </div> <p><bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" title="User:MediaWiki message delivery">MediaWiki message delivery</a></bdi> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772#c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:08, 11 February 2025 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250211000800","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07","replies":[]}}--></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONDESKTOP__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-08","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-08"}--><h2 id="Tech_News:_2025-08" data-mw-thread-id="h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800"></span>Tech News: 2025-08<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Tech News: 2025-08"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08"]}}--><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"><!--__DTLATESTCOMMENTTHREAD__{"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08","timestamp":"20250217211800"}__--><!--__DTCOMMENTCOUNT__1__--><!--__DTAUTHORCOUNT__1__--></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"><!--__DTSUBSCRIBEBUTTONMOBILE__{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800","replies":["c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08"],"text":"Tech News: 2025-08","linkableTitle":"Tech News: 2025-08"}--></div></div></div> <div class="plainlinks"> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08"></span>Latest <b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">tech news</a></b> from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/08" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/08">Translations</a> are available. </p><p><b>Weekly highlight</b> </p> <ul><li>Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the <code>Special:Homepage</code> for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at <code>Special:CommunityConfiguration</code>. To learn more about this feature, please read <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/02/12/community-updates-module-connecting-newcomers-to-your-initiatives/" class="extiw" title="diffblog:2025/02/12/community-updates-module-connecting-newcomers-to-your-initiatives/">the Diff post</a>, have a look <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Community_updates_module" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Community updates module">at the documentation</a>, or contact <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Growth" class="extiw" title="mw:Talk:Growth">the Growth team</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>Updates for editors</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png/220px-Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png/330px-Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png/440px-Page_Frame_Features_on_desktop.png 2x" data-file-width="2108" data-file-height="1028"/></a><figcaption>Highlighted talk pages improvements</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/" class="extiw" title="diffblog:2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/">a new design</a>. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/Feature summary">talk pages improvements</a>. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379102">[20]</a></li> <li>You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5324">[21]</a></li> <li>When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_error_references_no_backlink_label" title="MediaWiki:Cite error references no backlink label">an error message</a> was displayed. As part of the work to <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383036" class="extiw" title="phab:T383036">modernize Cite customization</a>, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.</li> <li>The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369466" class="extiw" title="phab:T369466">help to update the localized versions</a>. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.</li> <li>A new filter has been added to the <a href="/wiki/Special:Nuke" title="Special:Nuke">Special:Nuke</a> tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378488">[22]</a></li> <li>Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the <a href="/wiki/Special:Nuke" title="Special:Nuke">Special:Nuke</a> tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376378">[23]</a></li> <li><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Recurrent item"><img alt="Recurrent item" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/12px-Octicons-sync.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/18px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Octicons-sync.svg/24px-Octicons-sync.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024"/></span></span> 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 bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382193">[24]</a></li></ul> <p><b>Updates for technical contributors</b> </p> <ul><li>Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unification" class="extiw" title="mw:Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser Unification">Parsoid/Parser Unification</a> project page. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385923">[25]</a><a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371640">[26]</a></li> <li>Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that <code dir="ltr">mw.Uri</code> is deprecated. Tools requiring <code dir="ltr">mw.Uri</code> must explicitly declare <code dir="ltr">mediawiki.Uri</code> as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native <code dir="ltr">URL</code> API soon. <a class="external autonumber" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384515">[27]</a></li></ul> <p><i><b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Tech news</a></b> prepared by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers">Tech News writers</a> and posted by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki message delivery">bot</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News">Contribute</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/08" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/08">Translate</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Tech">Get help</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News" class="extiw" title="m:Talk:Tech/News">Give feedback</a> • <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors" class="extiw" title="m:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors">Subscribe or unsubscribe</a>.</i> </p> </div> <p><bdi lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery" title="User:MediaWiki message delivery">MediaWiki message delivery</a></bdi> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kwj2772#c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:18, 17 February 2025 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20250217211800","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08","replies":[]}}--></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08"></span> </p> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.eqiad.main‐8687d7f5d8‐7gtp8 Cached time: 20250217232903 Cache expiry: 864000 Reduced expiry: true Complications: [show‐toc] DiscussionTools time usage: 0.024 seconds CPU time usage: 0.108 seconds Real time usage: 0.155 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 510/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 3205/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 661/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 9/100 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 635/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.016/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 645154/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 50.737 1 -total 69.83% 35.430 1 Template:Autoarchive_resolved_section 30.07% 15.257 1 Template:Autoarchive_resolved_section/layout 19.32% 9.803 1 User_talk:Kwj2772/Editnotice 10.51% 5.330 1 User:MiszaBot/config 9.77% 4.959 1 Template:LangSwitch 4.42% 2.241 1 Template:Tlx 3.47% 1.761 1 Template:Archive_link --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key commonswiki:pcache:2621828:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20250217232903 and revision id 999603989. Rendering was triggered because: page-view --> </div><!--esi <esi:include src="/esitest-fa8a495983347898/content" /> --><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&oldid=999603989">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&oldid=999603989</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-user-shown">Hidden category: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Noindexed_user_pages" title="Category:Noindexed user pages">Noindexed user pages</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 17 February 2025, at 21:18.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons CC0 License</a>; all unstructured text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use">Terms of Use</a> and the <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy Policy</a>.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Commons:Welcome">About Wikimedia Commons</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Commons:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/commons.wikimedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kwj2772&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" lang="en" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><picture><source media="(min-width: 500px)" srcset="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" width="88" height="31"><img src="/w/resources/assets/mediawiki_compact.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="25" height="25" loading="lazy"></picture></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-header-container vector-sticky-header-container"> <div id="vector-sticky-header" class="vector-sticky-header"> <div class="vector-sticky-header-start"> <div class="vector-sticky-header-icon-start vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" aria-hidden="true"> <button class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-sticky-header-search-toggle" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ui.vector-sticky-search-form.icon"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </button> </div> <div role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box"> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="vector-sticky-search-form" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikimedia Commons"> <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:MediaSearch"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-context-bar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-sticky-header-toc" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-sticky-header-toc vector-sticky-header-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-sticky-header-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-sticky-header-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-sticky-header-toc-label" for="vector-sticky-header-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-sticky-header-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div class="vector-sticky-header-context-bar-primary" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">User talk</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Kwj2772</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-end" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="vector-sticky-header-icons"> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-talk-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="talk-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-speechBubbles mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-speechBubbles"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-subject-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="subject-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-article mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-article"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-history-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="history-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-history mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-history"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only mw-watchlink" id="ca-watchstar-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="watch-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-star mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-star"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-edit-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="wikitext-edit-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikiText mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-wikiText"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-ve-edit-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ve-edit-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-edit mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-edit"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-viewsource-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ve-edit-protected-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-editLock mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-editLock"></span> <span></span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-buttons"> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive" id="ca-addsection-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="addsection-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-speechBubbleAdd-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-speechBubbleAdd-progressive"></span> <span>Add topic</span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-icon-end"> <div class="vector-user-links"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-settings" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul></ul> </div><script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-6b9576b97f-9d642","wgBackendResponseTime":164,"wgDiscussionToolsPageThreads":[{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-04-20250121013300","replies":[{"timestamp":"20250121013300","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250121013300-Tech_News:_2025-04","replies":[]}]},{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-05-20250127221100","replies":[{"timestamp":"20250127221100","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250127221100-Tech_News:_2025-05","replies":[]}]},{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-06-20250204000500","replies":[{"timestamp":"20250204000500","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250204000500-Tech_News:_2025-06","replies":[]}]},{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-The_Signpost:_7_February_2025","replies":[]},{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-07-20250211000800","replies":[{"timestamp":"20250211000800","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250211000800-Tech_News:_2025-07","replies":[]}]},{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Tech_News:_2025-08-20250217211800","replies":[{"timestamp":"20250217211800","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20250217211800-Tech_News:_2025-08","replies":[]}]}],"wgPageParseReport":{"discussiontools":{"limitreport-timeusage":"0.024"},"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.108","walltime":"0.155","ppvisitednodes":{"value":510,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":3205,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":661,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":9,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":635,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":0,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 50.737 1 -total"," 69.83% 35.430 1 Template:Autoarchive_resolved_section"," 30.07% 15.257 1 Template:Autoarchive_resolved_section/layout"," 19.32% 9.803 1 User_talk:Kwj2772/Editnotice"," 10.51% 5.330 1 User:MiszaBot/config"," 9.77% 4.959 1 Template:LangSwitch"," 4.42% 2.241 1 Template:Tlx"," 3.47% 1.761 1 Template:Archive_link"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.016","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":645154,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.eqiad.main-8687d7f5d8-7gtp8","timestamp":"20250217232903","ttl":864000,"transientcontent":true}}});});</script> </body> </html>