MediaWiki-l August 2024

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Are there any good resources for writing scripts and gadgets
by Arcane 21 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

I'm currently trying to adapt several gadgets that are meant for wikis using the Monobook/Vector skins to the Monaco skin, and so far, I've managed to successfully port over the UTC Clock gadget and Sandbox page gadget to Monaco, but aside from those I've been having trouble since, frankly, my knowledge of Javascript/JQuery is slim and I'm not familiar with all the variables used in writing user scripts. I've fairly decent with CSS style sheets, but I still need help with Javascript, so does anyone know of some good resources I could look into, preferably tailored for writing scripts on MediaWiki? Also, if anyone wants to see what I have done so far (and have released publicly), the wiki I have been testing my live gadget/user script code on is here: https://mediawikitesters.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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New Code of Conduct Committee members
by Amir Sarabadani 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

Hello everyone, The Committee has finished selecting its new members. The new committee candidates are (in alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Egbe Eugene Agbor (Eugene233) - Greg Grossmeier - Jayprakash12345 - Kamila Součková Auxiliary members will be (alphabetically): - Effie Mouzeli - Joris Darlington Quarshie - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - SD0001 You can read more information about the members at [1]. List of changes from the last term: - Greg and Kamila will be joining the main committee. - Nuria is leaving the main committee - MusikAnimal is moving to the aux committee - Tony is leaving the aux committee This is not the final structure. According to the CoC [2], the current committee publishes the new members and calls for public feedback for *six weeks* and after that, the current committee might apply changes to the structure based on public feedback. Please let the committee know (via techconduct(a)wikimedia.org) if you have any concern regarding the members and its structure until *08 October 2024* and after that, the new committee will be in effect and will serve for a year. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m… -- Amir (he/him)

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13 Aug '24

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Possible to install Wikidata on a Linux computer?
by Keith Christian 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

If so, how would a user connect Wikidata to mediawiki? Thanks.

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Version control of Mediawiki db in staging/production environment
by Paolo Pedinotti 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

I would like to setup a Mediawiki site. In order to manage the site, I deliver code changes to a Git folder, and the changes are then transmitted to a staging server for test and to production for use. If I want to make changes to configurations that are in the file system there is no problem since the FS will be on Git. But what if I want to have control even on aspects that are saved in the database, like the categories and the templates that are available on my site? An obvious way would be to dump and restore the database, but I don't want to store all of it in Git. Is there a way to automate this process (having a configuration file in Git that does the work for you?) -- Paolo Pedinotti *Studente Ph.D. in Linguistica computazionale | Studente in Informatica, Università di Pisa*

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MediaWiki Insights - July edition
by Birgit Müller 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Hi All, Welcome to the monthly MediaWiki Insights email! First of all, many thanks and congratulations to Dragoniez, Anujagrawal, Nokib Sarkar, Agamya Samuel, Shy Blumer, AManWithNoPlan, Yejianfei and sunafterrainwm who got their first patch merged in MediaWiki core, extensions or services deployed in Wikimedia production during the month of July! One of the first merged patches in July was a project <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1027126> that Nokib Sarkar started at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tallinn, developed further after the Hackathon and got deployed in July: A new language converter in MediaWiki. The added language converter <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357853> from Meitei Script to Bengali Script replaces a previous prototype solution used on https://mni.wikipedia.org and enables speakers of the Manipuri language to read content on Manipuri Wikipedia in both scripts of the Manipuri language. Many thanks to Nokib for working on this and to Subbu, CScott, Amir Aaroni and everyone else who provided support! Simplify feature development: Exploring architectural patterns and opportunities in MediaWiki The new annual plan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/…> kicked off in July and we started work on exploring ways to simplify feature development <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Artifacts/KR_5.2:…> (KR 5.2).The work started with two parallel tasks: A survey overview of hooks, hooks handlers and extension registry parameters (5.2.1), and an exploration into unifying Echo and platform notifications into a platform-level architecture (5.2.2). Both tasks are planned work for this quarter (until the end of September) and hope to set the ground towards introducing new architectural patterns that simplify the way extensions interface with the platform. You can read more about the work and updates on the mediawiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Artifacts/KR_5.2:…>. The working group consists of principal engineers and members of MediaWiki and Feature Engineering teams. Project Snapshots: Parsoid deployed on first production wikis and a new way of provisioning on-demand test environments in the works As part of our continued rollout of Parsoid Read Views, Parsoid has been turned on this week as the default read views renderer on English and Hebrew Wikivoyage. Here’s the rationale <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Confidence_Framew…> behind our confidence to roll-out this experimental feature and collect feedback. To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unificatio…> documentation, and if you find a new bug, please create a Phabricator ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5846>. The rollout of Parsoid is part of 5.1 of the annual plan: Interventions to increase the sustainability of the platform. Many thanks to the Content Transform team for their work as well as to the people who report bugs! In an earlier Insights email <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Reports/May_2024#…> we shared about Huma, the new database to query dependencies in MediaWiki. Huma <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Artifacts/Huma:_B…> is now updated to use wmf.14 and 98% of the production classes are indexed. This improves the ability to run queries that find unused methods. Example: This is the query <https://huma.wmcloud.org/sql?sql=select+class_name%2C+method_name+from+meth…> for unused methods of BagOStuff <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/BagOStuff> (you can replace the class name with any other class and check for that instead). "most used methods" of that class can be queried like this <https://huma.wmcloud.org/sql?sql=select+called_method_name%2C+count%28*%29+…> (giving insight on which methods to extract to a narrow interface). To facilitate the provisioning of testing environments for automatic and exploratory testing we will be soon introducing a new backend for PatchDemo that is backed by Kubernetes. This new way of provisioning on-demand test environments enables not just the provisioning of MediaWikis for testing but also the testing of custom services & extensions. Under the codename of Project Catalyst, we are beginning to create a rollout plan to make this new provisioning tool the default in Patch Demo. The first step of the rollout will be to enable full feature completeness with the current patch demo <https://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/> backend. Many thanks to the Quality and Test Engineering and Release Engineering teams for driving this work! A huge thanks also to the maintainers of the previous PatchDemo backend, Bartosz Dziewonski and Ed Sanders, for their invaluable contributions, spark and support in enhancing our confidence in delivering software changes <3. As part of the overall effort to improve the sustainability of MediaWiki, the Technical Documentation Team is starting a project to establish metrics that measure the health of the MediaWiki documentation. We’re looking into how we define documentation health and how we can use those metrics to drive documentation work. For more information or to share your ideas, visit the project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Documentation_Team/Doc_m…>. For a preview of some of the data signals we’re considering, check out the experimental documentation metrics dashboard. <https://techdoc-dashboard.toolforge.org/> (You can use PagePile ID 59125 to try it out!) Up next: Wikimania: MediaWiki table and developer corner Wikimania <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Wikimania> is approaching and some of us will be there! If you join the conference, please come say Hi in the Hackathon area <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon#Initiative_Areas> at the MediaWiki table or the developer corner. This is also an opportunity to chat about the Product and Technology Advisory council <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_and_Technology_Advisory_Council/Pro…> pilot in person <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon#P&T_Advisory_Co…>. If you are interested in applying or know someone who may be a good fit: Applications are still open through August 10, 2024. Hope to see some of you at Wikimania! Thanks all for reading, Birgit -- Birgit Müller (she/her) Director of Product, MediaWiki and Developer Experiences Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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