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Proposed post:
Two announcements from @ladsgroup regarding refactoring in the #MediaWiki database layer:
First, two breaking changes to the Database class: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/G47TJK5SRJ4MGTTCH37EK3VRKSNKUSEV/
Next, creation of DeleteQueryBuilder and UnionQueryBuilder (following SelectQueryBuilder from 2020): https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GATRFC63FPQJ6Z43WZDIKSHYZQJCI62H/
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 08:01, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hackthon
[edit]Status: Posted Approved — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 16:38, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
The #Wikimedia Hackthon in Athens is coming up pretty soon! If you're attending, don't forget to add yourself to the on-wiki participants list: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Connect#Participants_list
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 04:14, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
MLEB release
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 16:41, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
A new version of the #MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (aka #MLEB) came out last week:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3P7F43R33Q2SFFEJNBY5HHMDWSVPER2X/
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle
Includes improvements to the Babel, Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions
Of note, this is expected to be the last release to support MediaWiki 1.38
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 04:50, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Hackathon countdown
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 21:23, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
If you ever forget exactly when the #Wikimedia Hackthon starts next week, Valerio has you covered with a *very* precise countdown: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/C9
(TIL that Phabricator has countdowns...)
#WMHack
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC): 2023-05-09T00:00
Legoktm (talk) 16:40, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Tech News 19
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 01:15, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
Lots of great changes in this week's #Wikimedia Tech News
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/19
* Closing an image in MediaViewer will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history
* SyntaxHighlight now supports wikitext
* Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages
* OAuth apps using identification-only or basic authorizations won't require review
* jquery.tipsy is being removed from #MediaWiki core
And more!
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 05:59, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Multi-DC blogpost
[edit]Status: Posted Approved with slight tweaks to hashtags Legoktm (talk) 01:10, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
How and why did Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment?
This is an introduction post chronicling our seven-year journey, the MediaWiki infrastructure improvements made along the way, and the reasons/benefits for each change.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2023/05/08/around-the-world-how-wikipedia-became-a-multi-datacenter-deployment/
#WebPerf #PHP #MediaWiki #MultiDC #Wikitech #NetOps #CDN
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC): 2023-05-10T12:00
Krinkle (talk) 13:13, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Self-closing tags
[edit]Status: Posted Approved — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 17:55, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
*checks calendar* it is 2023 and #MediaWiki no longer emits self-closing tags!
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/798999 / https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309150
Expect things that are parsing HTML with regex to break (e.g. https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/scap/-/merge_requests/135)
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 17:46, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Tech News 22
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 00:07, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
A new edition of #Wikimedia Tech News is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/22
Some of the highlighted #MediaWiki changes:
* Citoid ISBN lookups have been partially restored, using a few different databases through Zotero
* The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace
* VisualEditor is being switched to use in-core Parsoid instead of via RESTBase
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 23:32, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Tech News 23
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 15:15, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
A new edition of #Wikimedia Tech News is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/23
Some of the highlighted #MediaWiki changes:
* Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor
* Clicking on a link to Special:RecentChanges will no longer unintentionally change your preferences
* Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 23:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
BTB 139
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 04:09, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
A new episode of Between the Brackets (a #MediaWiki podcast) is out, interviewing Ike Hecht
https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-139-ike-hecht
"Ike Hecht, founder of the consulting company WikiTeq, is back to talk about weighty matters like AI, religion, and the singularity. Plus some pre-singularity thoughts on project management software and marketing."
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Legoktm (talk) 16:12, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
How to create your own reusable dialog with Codex
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 04:51, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
A tutorial on implementing a dialog with #Vue and #Codex #Wikimedia Design System:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/13/how-to-create-your-own-reusable-dialog-with-codex/
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC): 2023-06-16T10:00
Legoktm (talk) 04:10, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Tech News 24
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 04:51, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
A new edition of #Wikimedia Tech News is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/24
Some of the highlighted #MediaWiki issues/changes:
* Some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ added, there's a list of pages still needing to be fixed
* the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken
* The HTML id of the reason field on the delete form has changed, scripts may need updating
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC): 2023-06-15T10:00
Legoktm (talk) 04:14, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug
[edit]Status: Posted Approved, thanks! Legoktm (talk) 01:12, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
Our goal is to lower the barrier to performance profiling. The WikimediaDebug browser extension for Firefox and Chromium, can now profile the backend MediaWiki PHP process, and turn it into an interactive flamegraph, powered by Excimer and Speedscope.
What are flamegraphs, when do you need it, and how does it work?
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2023/06/08/flame-graphs-arrive-in-wikimediadebug/
#WebPerf #profiling #flamegraph #PerfMatters #PHP #MediaWiki #Excimer #Speedscope
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Krinkle (talk) 16:08, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
MinT
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 06:24, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
MinT: Supporting underserved languages with open machine translation
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/13/mint-supporting-underserved-languages-with-open-machine-translation/
"MinT ('Machine in Translation') is a new translation service by the Wikimedia Foundation Language Team that is based on open source neural machine translation models and supports over 200 languages. ...The translation models used by MinT support over 200 languages, including many underserved languages that are getting machine translation for the first time."
#MachineTranslation #OpenSource
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC): 2023-06-17T10:00
Legoktm (talk) 06:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
MW releases 2023-06-30
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 19:20, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
Did you know we have some new releases out?
✔️ #MediaWiki 1.40.0 (stable) has now been released - https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/H46H5ZYZG2PYUQ5STK7NWKF7GXYW7H6B/
❗ #MediaWiki , 1.39.4 (LTS), 1.38.7, 1.35.11 (LTS) security releases are now available - https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/message/HVT3U3XYY35PSCIQPHMY4VQNF3Q6MHUO/
💡 #MediaWiki 1.38 is now end of life. - https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6ZZFY53SAYRECABGPPFK5YOJKAIICDWR/
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 09:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
MW.org on Kubernetes
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 22:56, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
mediawiki.org is now hosted on the #WikiMediaFoundation #Mediawiki-on-Kubernetes infrastructure, That's just one fact out of the July edition of the #WikiMedia Technical Community Newsletter. Read the full edition at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2023/July
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 22:56, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Between the Brackets
[edit]Status: Posted Approved — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 15:50, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
Between the Brackets is a #podcast hosted by Yaron Koren about #MediaWiki with a variety of special guests.
The pod cast is available though a number of streaming services, Links can be found in its #Wikidata entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108093799
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 01:41, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Quips
[edit]Status: Posted Approved Legoktm (talk) 06:34, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
btw, if you're not following @quips@botsin.space yet, you're missing out on some of the best inside jokes from #MediaWiki developers
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC): 2023-08-05T14:00
Legoktm (talk) 06:00, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
SMWCon 2023
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Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 10:13, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
SMWCon 2023 - the 20th Semantic #MediaWiki conference takes place at University Paderborn, Germany from December 11-13. Discuss the future of (Semantic)MediaWiki in the age of AI. #SMWCon
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023
@smw@wikis.world #SemanticMW
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
Krabina (talk) 14:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Codex 1.0
[edit]Status: Posted Approved — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 09:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
#Codex 1.0 has been released 🎉
Codex is the new design system for #Wikimedia projects which provides a library of design tokens, user interface components, and catalog of icons to use with these components, which is available to #MediaWiki extensions and gadgets
🛈 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_Systems_Team/Announcing_Codex_1.0
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 20:49, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
MediaWiki Insights - Oct 2023
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 09:03, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Proposed post:
The third issue of the #MediaWiki Insights newsletter by the #Wikimedia MediaWiki engineering group is now available.
It can be viewed in the 📧 mailing lists archives (https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KVA77OGATZ2T2ZRGDJGIQFYQKWKJJARE/) or on wiki 📃(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Reports/October_2023)
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 11:12, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
2024 Coolest Tool Award nominations open
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Status: 
Not done Sorry, aged out - Technical issue T363314 for approving P858snake (talk) 11:05, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
🛠️ Nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are open until 2024-05-10. The top tools will be announced at Wikimania 2024.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2024
#CoolestToolAward #Wikimedia #wmhack
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
BDavis (WMF) (talk) 16:29, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- nb. Would approve & post this, but there's an issue with masto-collab — logged at T363314 — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 12:04, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
MediaWiki User And Developer Conference
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Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 21:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
Watch the livestream of #MediaWiki User and Developer Conference: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_2024#Remote_attendance #MWcon
Language: english
Schedule for (UTC):
Bawolff (talk) 21:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
🧑💻🛠️ The #wikimedia developer satisfaction 2024 survey results are now released and show what's important to our #developer community—the parts of the developer experience that work well, and the parts that need more resources to improve. ➡️ Read it. Talk about it. And ask questions!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2024
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Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 22:32, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
🧑💻🛠️ The #wikimedia developer satisfaction 2024 survey results are now released and show what's important to our #developer community—the parts of the developer experience that work well, and the parts that need more resources to improve.
➡️ Read it. Talk about it. And ask questions!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2024
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 22:31, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
MediaWiki Insights: April edition
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 21:13, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
The #MediaWiki Insights: April edition has been published.
📰 Read on wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Reports/April_2024
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 21:13, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Q123481141
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Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 00:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
Q123481141, that is #Wikimedia #Hackathon 2024 in Wikidata speak! has commenced in #Tallinn, #Estonia.
For more information ℹ️ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2024 or see some of the 📸 uploads that have already made it to #wikimediacommons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2024. #wmhack #wmhack2024
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 00:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Coolest Tools - 5 days
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 14:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
🛠️ Nominations for your favourite tools in the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award close in 5 days!
Nominations are open until 2024-05-10. The top tools will be announced at #Wikimania 2024.
🖥️ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2024
#CoolestToolAward #Wikimedia #wmhack
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 11:48, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 11:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
The #WikimediaFoundation Board of Trustees, Community Affairs Committee invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle.
This draft procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing #Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success.
You can find the details below, as well as the ways to give your feedback until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on 🌏
🖥️ℹ️ https://w.wiki/A9nR
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 09:58, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
MediaWiki Insights: May edition
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 10:52, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
📰 #MediaWiki Insights: May edition is now available https://w.wiki/AK6o
In this edition:
* 🏅📈 Goal accomplished: 20% increase in numbers of authors who have submitted more than 5 patches to core
* 💽 Changes to the release team: Thankyou Reedy and @jdforrester@mastodon.social for their previous work
* @Ladsgroup surprised us with a wonderful project at the #wmhack: #Huma – a bird’s eye view of #MW its a postgreSQL database that allows querying dependencies and usage of certain methods in MW.
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 10:50, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
MediaWiki Insights - June edition
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 21:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
#MediaWiki Insights: June edition is out now 📰 https://w.wiki/Adgh
Some highlights:
* 📈 Contributions to MediaWiki core over the past year, We’ve achieved a 25% increase in authors who have committed more than 5 patches
* Migration of the MediaWiki core metrics to the #Prometheus-capable #StatsLib library
* TK999 refactored the redirect storage to follow modern architecture standards
* Umherirrender worked on removing inline namespaces across core and extensions over the past months
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 21:28, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
July Technical Community Newsletter
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 00:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
The quarterly #Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter shares highlights and news from the past quarter and information about events coming up in the next quarter.
The July edition is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2024/July
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 00:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
MediaWiki Insights - September
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 11:33, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
🗞️ #MediaWiki Insights: September edition is out now https://w.wiki/BXfG, In this edition:
📈 Congrats to 5 new volunteer contributors: Ivi104, Matrix, obamwonyi, Ahonc and Abhii5599. Who got their 1st patch merged in either MediaWiki core, extensions or services deployed in Wikimedia production.
Project Updates:
🗝️ Updates to #Wikimedia’s auth system, phase 3 of Single User Login (SUL)
🖥️ Parsoid Read Views rolled out to 22/26 #Wikivoyages
🧮 MathML rollout as part of Mathoid depreciation
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 11:33, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Mudcon fall 24
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Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 03:53, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
@MWStake will be hosting the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (#MUDCon) Fall 2024 between 4/11/2024 and 6/11/2024.
#MUDCon will be a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, organizations, and communities, including the #SemanticMediaWiki community.
🖳 🛈 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_Fall_2024
#SMWCon
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 03:52, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
OTD - Bz to Phab migration
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 02:14, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
It's a few days late, But this year is our 10th anniversary of the #WikimediaFoundation started it's final steps in the #Bugzilla to #Phabricator migration, On the 2014-11-21 the import of the old Bugzilla archives into the Phabricator started, access to Phabricator to the public was reopened 2014-11-24.
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 12:56, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Developer Satisfaction Survey - Dec 2024
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Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 09:48, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
🗳️ The wikimediafoundation@wikimedia.social Dec 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is now live.
This survey is used to measure developer satisfaction, & determine where to invest resources in the future.
Topics cover include: #Wikimedia Cloud Services, Development and shared test environments, Phabricator, Code review, Continuous integration, Deployment, #MediaWiki Core backend components and APIs, Technical documentation, Research needs
ℹ️ For more info & links: https://w.wiki/CLTg
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 00:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Maintenance releases: MediaWiki 1.39.11, 1.41.5 and 1.42.4
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 09:12, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
📢 New #MediaWiki Maintenance releases are now available: 1.39.11, 1.41.5 and 1.42.4
These releases primarily serve as a maintenance release for these branches, they also contain a low risk, minor security fix for the #ConfirmEdit extension.
📝 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/PFTE5RHUERS6KTUGGRZO7XXV5THNJ77E/
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):
P858snake (talk) 09:12, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
MediaWiki 1.41 EOL
[edit]Status: Posted Approved P858snake (talk) 11:18, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Proposed post:
📣 #MediaWiki 1.41 will be end of life on 31 December 2024 as per the MediaWiki version lifecycle.
1.41.5 is expected to be the last release for this branch.
It is recommended to upgrade either to MediaWiki 1.42, which will be supported until June 2025 or the next LTS version, 1.43 (due to be released soon), which will be supported until at least December 2027.
📄 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5NYC4UZLY3MWQZ6DYJAUQRJG2ZHZFBJ6/
Language: English
Schedule for (UTC):