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Yesterday

Quiddity updated subscribers of T290778: [Config change] Enable automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces.

+1 to including that second paragraph as useful context.
P.s. Note for @STei-WMF : In Tech News, we can replace the plain 'name' of the preference (and buttons), with the actual interface string's name (discussiontools-preference-autotopicsub - found via the QQX trick), so that readers in more languages (beyond those which are manually translated by volunteers for Tech News itself) can get a hint about the context. -- That also benefits Tech News translators, as they won't have to look-up the exact wording that is used in their language, in order to write it accurately in Tech News. -- I.e. Final draft suggestion (also with an added link for the DiscussionTools feature help-page):

For users with "{{int:discussiontools-preference-autotopicsub}}" [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing|enabled in their preferences]], starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic with the source editor will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "{{int:Skin-action-addsection}}" or "{{int:Discussiontools-replybutton}}" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted-in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.

Wed, Oct 22, 7:53 PM · User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Deployments), TPP-Scaling, DiscussionTools

Tue, Oct 21

Quiddity updated the task description for T407908: Accessibility issue with browsing by headings.
Tue, Oct 21, 10:16 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (MobileFormatter), Accessibility
Quiddity updated the task description for T407908: Accessibility issue with browsing by headings.
Tue, Oct 21, 9:13 PM · Reader Growth Team, MobileFrontend (MobileFormatter), Accessibility

Thu, Oct 16

Quiddity added a comment to T407567: Citoid cannot fetch data for cbc.ca articles due to upstream WMF specific block ( 504 gateway timeout ).

Thanks for testing PrimeHunter. "cite web" in the wiktext editor did work for me initially, just before I filed this task (i.e. I entered the URL and clicked the Autofill button, and after a few seconds it auto-filled the Title and Website name parameters), but I cannot reproduce it now. I'm not sure if that's related (IIRC they use different backends?). But good to note.

Thu, Oct 16, 10:15 PM · Citoid
Quiddity created T407567: Citoid cannot fetch data for cbc.ca articles due to upstream WMF specific block ( 504 gateway timeout ).
Thu, Oct 16, 8:19 PM · Citoid

Fri, Oct 10

Quiddity closed T93487: scrolling to the beginning of a Flow topic is uncomfortable on mobile when on Topic page as Declined.

Declining ancient Flow task

Fri, Oct 10, 9:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, Design, Mobile, StructuredDiscussions
Quiddity closed T93487: scrolling to the beginning of a Flow topic is uncomfortable on mobile when on Topic page, a subtask of T93430: Mobile web - Flow issues (tracking), as Declined.
Fri, Oct 10, 9:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions, Tracking-Neverending
Quiddity closed T107108: Flow notification links on mobile point to desktop, a subtask of T156847: Core should be aware of the domain it is running on and render mobile domains where necessary, as Declined.
Fri, Oct 10, 9:55 PM · Platform Engineering (Icebox), Developer-Wishlist (2017), MediaWiki-General
Quiddity closed T107108: Flow notification links on mobile point to desktop, a subtask of T93430: Mobile web - Flow issues (tracking), as Declined.
Fri, Oct 10, 9:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions, Tracking-Neverending
Quiddity closed T107108: Flow notification links on mobile point to desktop as Declined.

Declining ancient Flow task

Fri, Oct 10, 9:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, Mobile, OKR-Work, MediaWiki-Redirects, StructuredDiscussions
Quiddity closed T109098: Add the optional Mobile web's VisualEditor in Flow mobile, a subtask of T93430: Mobile web - Flow issues (tracking), as Declined.
Fri, Oct 10, 9:51 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions, Tracking-Neverending
Quiddity closed T109098: Add the optional Mobile web's VisualEditor in Flow mobile as Declined.
Fri, Oct 10, 9:51 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, Mobile, StructuredDiscussions

Mon, Oct 6

Quiddity reassigned T366095: Deploy comment thanking to all wikis from Quiddity to ppelberg.

Now added (with tweaks) to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2025/42 - reassigning back to product owner.

Mon, Oct 6, 6:21 PM · Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice

Thu, Oct 2

Quiddity removed a project from T405422: Deploy config change to start the Paste Check A/B Test: User-notice.

This user-notice was handled as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399669#11234558

Thu, Oct 2, 5:10 PM · Verified, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), OKR-Work, VisualEditor, EditCheck

Fri, Sep 26

Quiddity moved T376564: Scribunto should provide a bulk ifexists check from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Sep 26, 8:38 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.21; 2025-09-30), User-notice, Scribunto
Quiddity moved T404823: Can't create links to hash fragments with square brackets from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Sep 26, 8:36 PM · Essential-Work, User-notice, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T393902: Multiblocks: Display only active blocks on the top of blocked user's Special:Contributions page / when editing a blocked user's user [talk] page from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Sep 26, 8:23 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.23; 2025-10-14), User-notice, MediaWiki-Special-pages, Community-Tech, MediaWiki-Logevents, Multiblocks, Trust and Safety Product Team
Quiddity added a comment to T378352: JsonConfig tracking category.

Thank you, stjn, that helps. We'll plan to potentially put this in the following week's edition (or once we've confirmed the categories have auto-emptied), using your draft, with links like below, unless anyone suggests further wording/timing changes:

  • Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582 .
Fri, Sep 26, 5:31 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), User-notice, JsonConfig

Thu, Sep 25

Quiddity added a comment to T378352: JsonConfig tracking category.

@Nemoralis (or @cscott or anyone!) Please could you suggest draft wording, or help further explain what exactly admins are being instructed to do? I.e. I checked a few examples linked from (Q130635582) and it seems the category is heavily used in some places (e.g. Welsh Wikipedia's category has ~144,000 entries) so it seems admins (might?) need to do something more than just delete the local category page? -- Or maybe those entries will automatically vanish once the category stops existing? (If so, maybe we can mention that in the entry, to prevent downstream confusion!). Thanks.

Thu, Sep 25, 10:06 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), User-notice, JsonConfig
Quiddity created T405638: Add recipient for automated weekly Phabricator data for Tech News.
Thu, Sep 25, 5:56 PM · Essential-Work, Release-Engineering-Team (Doing 😎), Phabricator

Sep 22 2025

Quiddity created T405293: Edit tab tooltip shows "source" version incorrectly for VE Edit-tab.
Sep 22 2025, 10:35 PM · VisualEditor
Quiddity added a comment to T405153: Reports of unsubscribe from wikitech-ambassadors failing to work.

That email address is not currently subscribed to that mailing list. Either your latest unsubscription attempt worked, or someone else manually unsubscribed you, (or, speculating, you might be subscribed with a different address that is auto-forwarding? Although I imagine that might be obvious from the headers, so probably not that.)

Sep 22 2025, 7:29 PM · SRE, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists
Quiddity updated the task description for T405153: Reports of unsubscribe from wikitech-ambassadors failing to work.
Sep 22 2025, 7:20 PM · SRE, Wikimedia-Mailing-lists

Sep 18 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T312229: Make the search on Special:MyEvents and Special:AllEvents case-insensitive.

I advocate for this being an important thing to fix. Today I was very confused about why I couldn't find many results for "call", and I had started to draft a request for people to add all the other regional calls until I stumbled upon an example of a "Call" that already had an event, whereupon I realized this was a bug, and there are actually many "Call" events already listed.

Sep 18 2025, 12:17 PM · CampaignEvents, Connection-Team, Campaign-Registration

Sep 12 2025

Quiddity moved T402322: "Display title" broken in visual editor from Not ready to announce to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 10:25 PM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.19; 2025-09-16), Parsoid (Tracking), Essential-Work, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T403212: Support \r, \n, \t, and \uNNNN in insource and intitle queries from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 10:25 PM · User-notice-archive, Discovery-Search (2025.09.05 - 2025.09.26), CirrusSearch
Quiddity moved T317599: Allow ^ and $ in intitle regex search from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 10:25 PM · User-notice-archive, Discovery-Search (2025.08.15 - 2025.09.05), CirrusSearch
Quiddity moved T366095: Deploy comment thanking to all wikis from Not ready to announce to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.

This was announced in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2025/34

Sep 12 2025, 8:26 PM · Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice
Quiddity moved T404029: Enable multiple 2FA modules in production from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 7:05 PM · User-notice, Wikimedia-Site-requests, MediaWiki-extensions-OATHAuth, FY2025-26 WE4.6.2 Multiple Authenticators
Quiddity moved T306325: Searching for an IP address in MediaWiki search bar should not take you to that IP's contributions from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 7:04 PM · User-notice-archive, Discovery-Search (2025.09.05 - 2025.09.26), MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.19; 2025-09-16), MediaWiki-Search
Quiddity moved T402322: "Display title" broken in visual editor from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 7:04 PM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.19; 2025-09-16), Parsoid (Tracking), Essential-Work, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity added a comment to T402322: "Display title" broken in visual editor.

For Tech News (for next week's edition) please could someone propose suggested wording for an entry? It sounds like there was a bug which has caused some errors in the wikitext of a small number of pages, and cleanup is needed - If that is accurate, it would be very helpful if we could link to a listing/search of the errors so that editors can easily find and fix those instances. Thanks.

Sep 12 2025, 7:04 PM · User-notice-archive, Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.19; 2025-09-16), Parsoid (Tracking), Essential-Work, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Regression, VisualEditor
Quiddity moved T403593: CirrusSearch should allow filtering on page creation and last edit timestamps from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 7:00 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.20; 2025-09-23), User-notice, Discovery-Search (2025.09.05 - 2025.09.26), CirrusSearch
Quiddity moved T378352: JsonConfig tracking category from Announce in next Tech/News to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 6:58 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), User-notice, JsonConfig
Quiddity moved T381577: Highlighting of syntax errors, warnings, infos for Wikitext editor from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 6:57 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.20; 2025-09-23), Community-Tech, MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror
Quiddity moved T403510: [Main Rollout] Enable unified mobile routing on remaining wikis from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 12 2025, 6:57 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Traffic

Sep 11 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T328254: Parser function for content model {{#contentmodel:}}.

For Tech News timing, I believe the ongoing discussion/patches here are an indicator that we should postpone announcing it. I.e. until the feature is stable, and has documentation that we can link it to. If nobody replies by tomorrow, then I will move the draft-entry into the following week's edition, so that translators don't waste some of their time if it needs to be rewritten. [EDIT: Now moved.] Thanks!
For content, the current draft is:

  • A new parser function has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. It returns either the localized name or the canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function is primarily intended for use in system messages, such as Mediawiki: editing interface, and in switches. [5]

which I hope we can make clearer by more clearly describing (or giving an example of?) the use-cases, plus a better #section-link for the first link once it's been documented there. Thanks!

Sep 11 2025, 9:17 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.21; 2025-09-30), Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MediaWiki-Parser
Quiddity updated subscribers of T400001: Create a Wiki for Wikimedia Thailand.

Hi @Zabe, It looks like you helped process the last few wiki creations, hence I'm asking you: Is there anything the folks who are requesting this wiki need to do, before it can move along? They've removed the list of extensions (from the Task-Description) that earlier comments were asking about, and have asked me if there's anything else they need to/should do. Much thanks!

Sep 11 2025, 9:07 PM · Thai-Sites, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.19; 2025-09-16), Wiki-Setup (Create)

Sep 10 2025

Quiddity moved T356471: The VisualEditor cannot add or remove list-defined references from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 10 2025, 8:51 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), WMDE-TechWish-Sprint-2025-09-03-Salted-Caramel-Icecream, VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References
Quiddity moved T334941: Vector 2022: consider displaying References in two columns on narrow screens from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.

Thanks for the draft! Based on our quick chat, and your update to the docs, I'm tweaking that to:

  • References lists that are made using <references/> will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' font-size and page-width settings.[ 1 ]

Now onwiki at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2025/38

Sep 10 2025, 8:45 PM · User-notice, Editing QA, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), Editing-team (Kanban Board), Cite, Vector 2022 (Tracking), Community Feedback (Reader)

Sep 8 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T328254: Parser function for content model {{#contentmodel:}}.

For Tech News: How would you suggest describing this in an entry?

The new parser function {{#contentmodel}} has been added. It returns either the localized or the canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function is primarily intended for use in system messages, such as Mediawiki:editinginterface, and in switches.

Sep 8 2025, 11:41 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.21; 2025-09-30), Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MediaWiki-Parser

Sep 5 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T317599: Allow ^ and $ in intitle regex search.

Moving to the 'Announce in next Tech/News' column now that the reindexing in T402220 seems to be complete, and this new functionality is hopefully now available on all Wikimedia wikis :)

Sep 5 2025, 7:52 PM · User-notice-archive, Discovery-Search (2025.08.15 - 2025.09.05), CirrusSearch
Quiddity added a comment to T328254: Parser function for content model {{#contentmodel:}}.

For Tech News: How would you suggest describing this in an entry? Is there any documentation to link to? Will this be available immediately on Monday, or during the week with the deployment train? Thanks. [Note: I may postpone until the following week's edition, especially if it's a train-deployed feature, so that editors can start using it immediately upon learning about it. Plus potentially to give time for good docs to be written!]

Sep 5 2025, 7:44 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.21; 2025-09-30), Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MediaWiki-Parser
Quiddity moved T403510: [Main Rollout] Enable unified mobile routing on remaining wikis from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 5 2025, 7:31 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Traffic

Sep 4 2025

Quiddity moved T58074: Echo: Generate periodic web notification to nudge users to confirm an unverified email address from Announce in next Tech/News to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Sep 4 2025, 11:12 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.24; 2025-10-21), Product Safety and Integrity (Sprint Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream (Oct 20 - Nov 7)), Essential-Work, Data-Persistence (work done), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Performance Issue, SecTeam-Processed, Security-Team, Growth-Team, Notifications (Echo)
Quiddity added a comment to T378352: JsonConfig tracking category.

For Tech News, please could someone both confirm if it is important to include this in Tech News, and if so, suggest draft wording for an entry? I'm not sure how much this change will affect existing uses, or if editors will need to do/fix anything based on this change. Thanks.

Sep 4 2025, 11:11 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), User-notice, JsonConfig
Quiddity moved T381577: Highlighting of syntax errors, warnings, infos for Wikitext editor from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Sep 4 2025, 11:06 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.20; 2025-09-23), Community-Tech, MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror
Quiddity moved T401066: List of templates used should be presented in multi-column format from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 4 2025, 10:49 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), User-notice, MediaWiki-Page-derived-data, MediaWiki-Page-editing
Quiddity moved T402601: Compile list of templates, jargon and policies relevant to Copyvio from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 4 2025, 10:49 PM · User-notice-archive, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Goal, OKR-Work, EditCheck
Quiddity moved T402958: Increase group by toggle sampling percentages on French, Portuguese and Chinese to 100% from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Sep 4 2025, 10:49 PM · User-notice-archive, MediaWiki-Recent-changes, Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban)

Sep 1 2025

Quiddity created P82349 browser-console error message from a user-script.
Sep 1 2025, 9:14 PM
Quiddity updated the task description for T388099: Inform ptwikibooks of LQT and Flow removal plan and timing.
Sep 1 2025, 9:04 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.7; 2025-06-24), Essential-Work, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-extensions-LiquidThreads, Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions
Quiddity updated the task description for T397426: Implement bulk fixes on ptwikibooks.
Sep 1 2025, 9:03 PM · Essential-Work, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-extensions-LiquidThreads, Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions
Quiddity added a comment to T388099: Inform ptwikibooks of LQT and Flow removal plan and timing.

Message translated and sent: https://pt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Topic:Yy5wvcw7yqwwtjnx (If needed: English original)

Sep 1 2025, 9:02 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.7; 2025-06-24), Essential-Work, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MediaWiki-extensions-LiquidThreads, Growth-Team, StructuredDiscussions

Aug 22 2025

Quiddity moved T396168: Commons videos not indexed by Google from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 22 2025, 6:32 PM · User-notice-archive, WikibaseMediaInfo, Structured-Data-Backlog, TimedMediaHandler, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, SEO
Quiddity moved T393240: Special:BlockedExternalDomains should make use of Community Configuration from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 22 2025, 1:30 AM · User-notice-archive, Patch-For-Review, Growth-Team (Current Sprint), MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.15; 2025-08-19), Wikimania-Hackathon-2025, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.28; 2025-05-06), Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025, CommunityConfiguration-Adoption, AbuseFilter
Quiddity moved T399455: Change default recentchanges query time on large wikis from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 22 2025, 1:23 AM · DBA, User-notice-archive, Chinese-Sites, Moderator-Tools-Team, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Community-Tech

Aug 21 2025

Quiddity moved T363726: ?action=info should have a Table of Contents from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Aug 21 2025, 10:14 PM · User-notice, Patch-For-Review, good first task, Accessibility, MediaWiki-User-Interface (actions)
Quiddity moved T395524: Add a link (Structured task): Increase rollout on English Wikipedia to 100% from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Aug 21 2025, 10:13 PM · Growth-Team (Current Sprint), Growth-Structured-Tasks, MoveComms-Support, Add-Link-Structured-Task
Quiddity moved T400849: Enable "Thanks" from talk pages as an opt-in beta feature from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 21 2025, 6:05 PM · Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.16; 2025-08-26), User-notice, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools

Aug 15 2025

Quiddity moved T400849: Enable "Thanks" from talk pages as an opt-in beta feature from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 15 2025, 11:04 PM · Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.16; 2025-08-26), User-notice, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools
Quiddity moved T400849: Enable "Thanks" from talk pages as an opt-in beta feature from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Aug 15 2025, 5:38 AM · Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.16; 2025-08-26), User-notice, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools
Quiddity added a comment to T400849: Enable "Thanks" from talk pages as an opt-in beta feature.

Thanks for Draft for Tech News! A few notes/questions @ppelberg :

  1. IIUC, it's getting released with the train next week, so I will rewrite the lead from "Next week" to "Later this week". Plus I'll include links to both the project-page and the Beta prefs:

Later this week, people who are logged in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. [Learn more](phab:T400849)

  1. For the "Learn more" link, I recommend creating a new section at the bottom of the project page, with the 2 screenshots from the task-Description above, and a few brief sentences. (for long-term documentation, and for translatability). Then we could link to that, instead of this task.
  2. I notice that some wikis don't have the Discussion Tools feature within their Beta Features at all, e.g. Meta-wiki's and MediaWiki-wiki's and Enwikisource's. -- I suggest we contextualize this distinction in the TechNews entry by adding (bold for the added bits) "... Beta Feature [available at their wiki and] enabled will gain...". -- Question: Is there a listing that we can link to, of which wikis currently have the Beta Feature (and perhaps the timeline for further rollouts)? [Hmm, I've found the listing at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Deployment_Status#Deployment_Status but that seems to imply that this Beta Feature will only become available at 14 wikis? If that is true, we should rewrite the TechNews entry a bit more to make that very clear...] - Please clarify. Thanks!
Aug 15 2025, 5:38 AM · Verified, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.16; 2025-08-26), User-notice, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools
Quiddity moved T393240: Special:BlockedExternalDomains should make use of Community Configuration from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Aug 15 2025, 4:59 AM · User-notice-archive, Patch-For-Review, Growth-Team (Current Sprint), MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.15; 2025-08-19), Wikimania-Hackathon-2025, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.28; 2025-05-06), Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025, CommunityConfiguration-Adoption, AbuseFilter
Quiddity added a comment to T393240: Special:BlockedExternalDomains should make use of Community Configuration.

Thanks for the suggestion and draft! A few suggestions/questions:
(1) Content: Is this rewrite accurate and good, or tweakable to something good?

  • Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.

Are there any other technical aspects/changes that need to be mentioned? -- I.e. I'm uncertain whether we need to mention anything about "Functionally-wise, blocked external domains should work as before" -- from a glance comparison (of Beta Cluster versus MediaWikiwiki), it seems like the features are identical from a user-perspective.

Aug 15 2025, 4:59 AM · User-notice-archive, Patch-For-Review, Growth-Team (Current Sprint), MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.15; 2025-08-19), Wikimania-Hackathon-2025, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.28; 2025-05-06), Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025, CommunityConfiguration-Adoption, AbuseFilter

Aug 14 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T401943: i18n: [clearyourcache] Incorrect message.

I'd recommend reading the related discussion in T195229: Feature request: "clearyourcache" message should only show information for the specific browser being used (instead of all browsers) before working on code-changes for this task. We need to agree on the final goal/result, before implementing changes.
E.g. From the comments there, I and SD0001 believe it might be clearer to just mention the single key-combination that works for all major browsers, as currently written in the first 2 sentences of Enwiki's custom version at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Clearyourcache - I.e. (with appropriate formatting to-be-added)

Note: After saving, you have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari: Hold down the ⇧ Shift key and click the Reload toolbar button.

But first, someone(?) needs to make the final decision about exactly what wording to use, so that we don't waste the time of translators with multiple changes.

Aug 14 2025, 7:50 PM · MediaWiki-General, I18n
Quiddity moved T400583: WikiEditor toolbar items don't expose their keyboard shortcuts from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 14 2025, 6:30 PM · User-notice, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), Editing-team, WikiEditor (2010)
Quiddity moved T398390: mw.addWarning() not working: only the last one is shown from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 14 2025, 6:30 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.14; 2025-08-12), Regression, Scribunto
Quiddity moved T396789: [Epic] Run and analyse an experiment for the group by toggle for Watchlist/RecentChanges/RelatedChanges from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 14 2025, 6:29 PM · OKR-Work, User-notice, Moderator-Tools-Team, Epic, MediaWiki-Watchlist, MediaWiki-Recent-changes
Quiddity added a comment to T401825: Manually archive Village Pump Flow boards on sewikimedia and fiwikimedia.

Thanks! Re: page-names, I think it would be best to use the generic /Flow, for now. (Context: I already asked, in my last MassMessage to those 2 pages, if they wanted something different, but nobody replied. It's a minor detail, either way.)

Aug 14 2025, 6:18 PM · Essential-Work, WMSE, WMFI, Growth-Team, Editing-team (Kanban Board), StructuredDiscussions, DiscussionTools

Aug 13 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T401825: Manually archive Village Pump Flow boards on sewikimedia and fiwikimedia.

I agree it would be easier for everyone if we (WMF) could do this update, for them.
The only part I cannot do myself is "Move" those 2 current pages to be .../Flow subpages.

Aug 13 2025, 8:42 PM · Essential-Work, WMSE, WMFI, Growth-Team, Editing-team (Kanban Board), StructuredDiscussions, DiscussionTools

Aug 8 2025

Quiddity moved T396789: [Epic] Run and analyse an experiment for the group by toggle for Watchlist/RecentChanges/RelatedChanges from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 8 2025, 7:03 PM · OKR-Work, User-notice, Moderator-Tools-Team, Epic, MediaWiki-Watchlist, MediaWiki-Recent-changes

Aug 7 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T330527: Wider tables overlap sticky page tools (Upstream Minerva's responsive table styles to core SkinModule).

[personal perspective] If I understand correctly, it looks like this discussion proposes constraining the width of tables, both when the Tools/Appearance menus are expanded, but also when they are all collapsed.
I suggest that it would be ideal to continue the past practice of NOT constraining the table-width, if there are no expanded menus to overlap with.

Aug 7 2025, 8:39 PM · Readers Essential Work 2025 (Improve display of large content in Vector 2022 and Minerva skins), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.8; 2024-06-04), Community Feedback (Reader), Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 4), Vector 2022
Quiddity moved T398390: mw.addWarning() not working: only the last one is shown from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:53 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.14; 2025-08-12), Regression, Scribunto
Quiddity moved T400583: WikiEditor toolbar items don't expose their keyboard shortcuts from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:53 PM · User-notice, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), Editing-team, WikiEditor (2010)
Quiddity moved T340460: Allow .vue files to be used in Gadgets from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · User-notice-archive, Vue.js, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), MediaWiki-ResourceLoader, MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets, Design-System-Team, Front-end Modernization
Quiddity moved T398626: Create a default expiry option for blocking Temporary Accounts from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · OKR-Work, User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.11; 2025-07-22), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)), Temporary accounts (Global wiki rollout), MediaWiki-Blocks, Trust and Safety Product Team
Quiddity moved T400119: Block traffic from user-agents not honoring our policy from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, Traffic, SRE
Quiddity moved T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Essential (LPL Essential 2024 Nov-Jan), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.3; 2024-11-12), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.12; 2024-07-02), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T400510: Parsoid Read Views to Wikipedia deploy ~2025-07-23 from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · User-notice-archive, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Small Size Wikipedias)
Quiddity moved T379892: Initial roll-out of Scribunto library for accessing message bundles from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Projects (Other), LPL Essential (2025 Jul-Sep), LPL Onboarding and Development (Current), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T311099: Allow on-wiki scripts and gadgets to use Codex icons from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Aug 7 2025, 7:44 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.21; 2025-03-18), MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets, Design-System-Team, User-DannyS712, Codex

Aug 6 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T148649: Display an entry for page in watchlist when page protection expired; Display an entry in user page when user blocking expired.

@jsn.sherman Problem statement/Use-case: As an admin on a wiki, I can currently see log-entries in my watchlist (or RecentChanges) for when a temporary Page-Protection is added, but there are no indications when that temporary status expires. -- I want [admin-only?] lines added to my watchlist (and RC?), indicating that a page I watchlist is no longer protected. That new indication would help remind me to play closer attention to that page in the near-future, or give me context for why it is suddenly getting vandalism/etc again.
E.g. screenshot of what I currently see in my watchlist, for a temporarily-protected page:

image.png (154×1 px, 68 KB)

Aug 6 2025, 9:18 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Trust and Safety Product Team, MediaWiki-Blocks, MediaWiki-Watchlist, MediaWiki-Page-protection, MediaWiki-Logevents

Aug 1 2025

Quiddity moved T379892: Initial roll-out of Scribunto library for accessing message bundles from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 1 2025, 10:13 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Projects (Other), LPL Essential (2025 Jul-Sep), LPL Onboarding and Development (Current), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T400510: Parsoid Read Views to Wikipedia deploy ~2025-07-23 from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Aug 1 2025, 10:13 PM · User-notice-archive, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Small Size Wikipedias)

Jul 31 2025

Quiddity moved T311099: Allow on-wiki scripts and gadgets to use Codex icons from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 10:30 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.21; 2025-03-18), MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets, Design-System-Team, User-DannyS712, Codex
Quiddity updated subscribers of T311099: Allow on-wiki scripts and gadgets to use Codex icons.

@SD0001 Thanks for the draft-wording & link, that's appreciated!
Question: If I understand correctly, this entry is closely related to the entry that @Tacsipacsi drafted for the .vue files in gadgets entry which also mentions Codex icons, but that sentence uses a different link and I think it has a different focus(?). -- How would you both suggest tweaking the wording and links of the existing entry, and/or to separately mention the Codex icons as a separate (or sub) entry?
TLDR: You might want to merge/rewrite the current and proposed drafts, which are:

  • [https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/icons/overview.html Codex icons] are now also available.
  • To use Codex icons in user scripts, a new API module has been created: [[mw:API:CodexIcons]].

[I'll temporarily un-mark that entry from translation, so that you can edit freely, and I'll freeze it again tomorrow (in ~22 hours).]

Jul 31 2025, 10:30 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.21; 2025-03-18), MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets, Design-System-Team, User-DannyS712, Codex
Quiddity moved T400583: WikiEditor toolbar items don't expose their keyboard shortcuts from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 10:15 PM · User-notice, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), Editing-team, WikiEditor (2010)
Quiddity moved T400119: Block traffic from user-agents not honoring our policy from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 10:15 PM · Patch-For-Review, User-notice, Traffic, SRE
Quiddity added a comment to T400510: Parsoid Read Views to Wikipedia deploy ~2025-07-23.

@CCiufo-WMF Possibly! I believe the team already communicated directly with the 40 affected wikis in this batch. Is there anything specific that editors at other wikis need to be aware of, next week?

Jul 31 2025, 10:14 PM · User-notice-archive, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Small Size Wikipedias)
Quiddity moved T379892: Initial roll-out of Scribunto library for accessing message bundles from In current Tech/News draft to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.

Sorry for the workboard noise, I got confused about the overlap between this task and T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle, which I now believe is distinct from this. I'll await the draft entry (for Tech News) for this task, or further corrections if I'm still misunderstanding something. Thanks.

Jul 31 2025, 10:05 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Projects (Other), LPL Essential (2025 Jul-Sep), LPL Onboarding and Development (Current), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle from Not ready to announce to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 10:01 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Essential (LPL Essential 2024 Nov-Jan), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.3; 2024-11-12), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.12; 2024-07-02), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity added a project to T359918: Lua interface for convenient access to translations in a message bundle: User-notice.

This is now in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2025/32

Jul 31 2025, 10:01 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Essential (LPL Essential 2024 Nov-Jan), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.3; 2024-11-12), MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.12; 2024-07-02), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T366095: Deploy comment thanking to all wikis from Announce in next Tech/News to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.

I'm moving this back to "not ready to announce" (for Tech News purposes) because the draft (in the task-Description) is only about Ptwiki & Testwiki, and we generally don't announce things globally if they only affect a few wikis (as that is less distracting/confusing for everyone else).

Jul 31 2025, 9:58 PM · Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), User-notice
Quiddity moved T379892: Initial roll-out of Scribunto library for accessing message bundles from Already announced/Archive to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 9:51 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Projects (Other), LPL Essential (2025 Jul-Sep), LPL Onboarding and Development (Current), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T379892: Initial roll-out of Scribunto library for accessing message bundles from Announce in next Tech/News to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 9:51 PM · User-notice-archive, LPL Projects (Other), LPL Essential (2025 Jul-Sep), LPL Onboarding and Development (Current), MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Quiddity moved T340460: Allow .vue files to be used in Gadgets from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 9:50 PM · User-notice-archive, Vue.js, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.12; 2025-07-29), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), MediaWiki-ResourceLoader, MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets, Design-System-Team, Front-end Modernization
Quiddity moved T398626: Create a default expiry option for blocking Temporary Accounts from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 9:50 PM · OKR-Work, User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.11; 2025-07-22), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)), Temporary accounts (Global wiki rollout), MediaWiki-Blocks, Trust and Safety Product Team
Quiddity moved T398347: Temp Accounts: Create a new footer for temp accounts from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.
Jul 31 2025, 9:50 PM · OKR-Work, User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.13; 2025-08-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cannoli (July 7 - July 25)), Temporary accounts (Global wiki rollout), Trust and Safety Product Team

Jul 28 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T77154: Notification: Your file was used.

Another request for this feature at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Idea_for_a_new_feature:_notification_when_Wikimedia_Commons_files_are_used_on_Wikipedia_pages

Jul 28 2025, 10:42 PM · Commons, Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2017, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2016, German-Community-Wishlist, Notifications (Echo)