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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [1]
Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [2]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]
In depth
Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
The English Wikipedia is my wikihome. I began formal editing in October 2005, seeking to improve music-related articles. I have observed several WikiProjects, but participated mostly in Classical Music and Film. A large chunk of my early edits came in 2007–08. In 2015–16, I mostly answered edit and move requests, worked on templates and modules, patrolled DISPLAYTITLE and DEFAULTSORT issues, and monitored editnotices. I've been on an extended wikibreak through 2024.
Articles, files, other contributions
On the English Wikipedia, I credit myself with creating the following articles. I created some early ones with an old IP of an ISP I formerly used.
I have an alternate account that I use for public security and for proof-of-concept script testing. I have an inactive bot account for automated edits and maintenance work. Currently, I do not send semi-automated AWB edits through this account.
Awards
Awards
The Barnstar of High Culture
For doing a lot of good work on articles on this composer guy and a lot of other classical music pieces! Abeg92contribs 14:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The Music Barnstar
Awarded to Andy M. Wang for your exceptional effort and dedication to music-related articles. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 03:44, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Protector of the Wiki
Keeping the Richards at bay. Good job. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)}
For fixing the entire article[4] and for reverting the vandals on the article - You're edits are very much appreciated! :),
Thanks & Happy editing, –Davey2010Talk 18:22, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar
For you assistance on multiple protected templates. You've really helped me learn! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
You've contributed much to Wikipedia's technical aspects. I think your work should receive more acknowledgement. Mr. Guye (talk) 23:33, 27 April 2017 (UTC)