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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!

Hello Jarekt, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024. Happy editing, ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 20:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 20:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

QuickStatements in Template:Information

Hi Jarekt. I was wondering if you could explain a little bit how, where and why the QuickStatement metadata as generated by/in Template:Information is being used. QuickStatements use display:none'd information but as external systems do not that display:none into account, it ends up in Google and other systems. It also pollutes the scraped data that is used for things like MediaViewer. So if I have a better understanding of it, then I hope that I can suggest some improvements. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:09, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheDJ: The system of QuickStatements tags is managed by Module:TagQS, and the Module:Information is not creating or reading them (at the moment). Those tags are used mostly to pass information from I18n templates used by {{Artwork}} or {{Book}}. Lets pick an example: File:'Courtesan Playing the Samisen' by Isoda Koryusai, c. 1785.jpg. It has {{Artwork}} template with bunch of smaller templates:

• {{Creator}}
• {{Other date}}
• {{Technique}}
• {{Size}}
• {{Institution}}

Each one of those templates provide internationalized wikitext displayed in a given field, each one of them also generates QS tags that provide the same data in language independent way. The encoding is very close of what a QuickStatement would be to add the same data to Wikidata. So for example, this file's Creator templates adds <div style="display: none;">artist QS:P170,Q3155497</div> to wikitext, which is picked up by Module:Artwork. In case given object does not have Wikidata item or existing item does not have creator (P170) property than Module:Artwork can provide one click way to create new Wikidata item or add properties to the existing one. You can test it by clicking icon. So if {{Information}} template calls {{Other date}} or {{Creator}} than there might be some QS tags floating in the Wikicode, but {{Information}} template does not look for them. The same templates in infoboxes supported by Module:Artwork and Module:Creator modules, might be used to add metadata to Wikidata. Hope that explains things a bit. Let me know is some parts are not clear. --Jarekt (talk) 01:40, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Commons talk:Photo challenge/2023 - December - Fossil fuel

Hello Jarekt, please make soon some decision on the matter - or cancel this challenge : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/2023_-_December_-_Fossil_fuel ...best regards & a very happy new Year ! Gordito1869 (talk) 12:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
• The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]

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Tech News: 2024-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [4]
• Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [5]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [6]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [7]
• An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [8][9]
• Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [10]
• The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [11]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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