User talk:Jarekt

Tech News: 2025-06

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

Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [1]
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[2] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[3] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
- (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [4]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [5]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [6]

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Ukrainian flags

Can you take a look at this Graphics Lab post? I need your help to replace the old bitmap flags with the new svg ones. The only thing is that the File:Flags of Petrove.png is outdated and needs to be replaced with the new File:Flag of Krasnosillia (Kropyvnytskyi Raion).svg. Thanks in advance Feitidede☆ﾟ.* 01:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Feitidede, are you asking for global replace of the old PNG files with the new SVG files? If so, I can help, but please spell it out exactly what you want. The easiest for me if you fill bunch of {{universal replace|old image|new image|reason=give reason here}} commands for me to cut and paste. --Jarekt (talk) 02:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the old png files need to be replaced with their respective vectored counterparts.

Here you go:

{{universal replace|Flag of Petrove (2001-2016).png|Flag of Petrove.svg|reason=Outdated flag replaced in 2016}}

{{universal replace|Golovkivka oleks prapor.png|Flag of Holovkivka (Kirovohrad Oblast).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}

{{universal replace|Dmitrovka zn prapor.png|Flag of Dmytrivka (Kropyvnytskyi Raion).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}

{{universal replace|Krasnosilya ol prapor.png|Flag of Krasnosillia (Kropyvnytskyi Raion).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}

{{universal replace|Novogrigor myl prapor.png|Flag of Novohryhorivka (Novoukrainka Raion).svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}

{{universal replace|Chervonokamenka pos prapor.png|Flag of Chervona Kamianka.svg|reason=Superseded with vector version}}
Feitidede☆ﾟ.* 02:43, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Feitidede, I sent the request yesturday to User:CommonsDelinker/commands. But it is still not finished. --Jarekt (talk) 13:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Photographs of paintings by User:Sailko without Creator template

Can probably be removed from these 3,474 images Multichill (talk) 20:58, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Multichill, working on it. --Jarekt (talk) 04:17, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reworking templates

Good evening! Can you help me in the shortest possible time with re-cutting the template for the month in China, replacing the conditional 2024|December with 202|4|12? Since China is one of the most important countries in the world and I am currently very busy with other things, I have doubts about editing through a bot. At the same time, I have prepared a header there, hidden to avoid interruptions.

List of templates:

Using JarektBot, you need to automatically create categories for cities by month in the following countries:

MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 17:12, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MasterRus21thCentury, My JarektBot account was mostly using AutoWikiBrowser, unfortunately there is a known bug in the AWB code that causes AWB to crash on my computer. The issue is not affecting many people so, it is not a high propriety, for AWB developers, but prevents me from using the tool, until it is resolved. --Jarekt (talk) 04:11, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-07

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

Weekly highlight

The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

Updates for editors

The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [7]
As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [8]
View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [10]
The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [11]
As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [12]

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