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Benvenuto su Wikisource!

Ciao Pic57, un saluto di benvenuto su Wikisource, la biblioteca libera!

Per iniziare la tua collaborazione, leggi come prima cosa cos'è Wikisource, la pagina delle linee guida ed i manuali contenuti nella sezione aiuto. Se hai domande, dubbi o curiosità non esitare a chiedere al Bar, a un amministratore o a qualsiasi utente vedessi collegato seguendo le ultime modifiche.

Buon lavoro e buon divertimento da tutti i wikisourciani.

Naturalmente benvenuto anche da parte mia e se avessi bisogno non esitare a contattarmi. Samuele 06:55, 4 giu 2012 (CEST)

Ho appena terminato la rilettura del libro di Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, "Osservazioni sullo stato attuale dell'Italia e sul suo avvenire". Una lettura molto interessante per me e spero anche utile a wikisource. Ho fatto del mio meglio per correggere le bozze. Ho incontrato in pratica solo errori, pochi tutto sommato, dovuti all'importazione da OCR. Per il resto bisognava mantenere l'ortografia dell'epoca, ma per questo bastava rimanere fedeli al testo fotocopiato.

Grazie

Caro Pic57,

grazie per l'ottimo lavoro di rilettura: se avessi bisogno di delucidazioni non farti riguardo a scrivermi. - εΔω 08:16, 13 lug 2012 (CEST)

Caro εΔω,

grazie per l'accoglienza. Ho recentemente ripreso la mia attività wikipediana dopo 6 anni di interruzione. Ho pensato che la cosa migliore fosse imparare a conoscere il codice rileggendo i testi scansionati, e cercando così di rendermi utile da subito.

Oggi ho terminato la rilettura dei Solenni funerali di Pio papa ottavo (Amat), 15 lug 2012 (CEST)

Oggi ho terminato la rilettura de L'Effigie di Roma, 21:12, 21 lug 2012 (CEST)

Benvenuto e suggerimenti

Ciao Pic57, benvenuto in questo progetto!

Vedo che stai contribuendo attivamente alla crescita di Wikisource e ne sono felice. Come utente "anziano" oltre a darti il benvenuto ed incoraggiarti nel proseguimento del tuo lavoro,, ti voglio anche dare dei suggerimenti per evitare alcuni errori comuni quando si creano le pagine autore:

1) Pagine autore, link a altri progetti: è sufficiente inserire solo il nome della voce sull'altro progetto e non l'URL intero. (vedi esempio)

2) Inserire link da Wikipedia e progetti fratelli verso Wikisource (vedi esempio)

3) Inserire le date di nascita e morte di un autore nelle Ricorrenze (vedi esempio per nascita e morte)

Ciao, --Accurimbono (disc) 15:58, 24 lug 2012 (CEST)

Accorgimenti

Vedo il tuo gran lavoro di rilettura, grazie per il contributo importante col quale ti prodighi in questo progetto.
Consentimi qualche consiglio: quando rileggi, il testo deve essere il più attinente possibile alla scansione; qui (guarda la cronologia) probabilmente ti sei fidato troppo di chi ha lavorato prima di te: una svista può sempre capitare, tocca al rilettore sistemare (anche alcune piccolezze di formattazione).
Perdona l'intrusione e se avessi dubbi, sono a tua disposizione.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 16:49, 28 lug 2012 (CEST)

Mi riferivo anche al numero romano della strofa (v), raggruppamento dei versi sbagliato e altri piccole sviste (accento dattilografico ' in tipografico ’, eliminazione dello spazio tra parola e simbolo di punteggiatura, esempio: parola ; e altro), quest'ultime risolvibili premendo postOCR se hai attivato gli Strumenti per la rilettura o la bottoniera da Preferenze. Da premere due volte per portare RigaIntestazione nell'header se non fosse già presente e, se stai trascrivendo e non rileggendo, premere solo dopo aver inserito il tag poem.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 19:08, 30 lug 2012 (CEST)

Vai su Preferenze → Accessori e abilita il quarto: avrai svariati strumenti sulla sinistra, molto utili per svolgere compiti sempre uguali e noiosi.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 01:13, 31 lug 2012 (CEST)

Attestato di partecipazione

In assenza di Edo, ti ho assegnato io stesso la medaglia di partecipazione alla rilettura del mese; mi sono permesso qualche cambiamento per meglio sistemare la pagina. Ti ringrazio per il tuo cospicuo contributo.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 18:46, 31 lug 2012 (CEST)

Visto che riguarda sempre la rilettura del mese, ti scrivo qui.

La correzione che hai apportato a questa pagina è sbagliata: quel simbolo anticamente stava a indicare la nostra s; è vero che cerchiamo di attenerci al testo, ma questo non deve risultare illeggibile. Ti consiglio a questo proposito di leggerti le Convenzioni di trascrizione, dove troverai altri utili suggerimenti.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 23:03, 2 ago 2012 (CEST)

Toh ho letto adesso il tuo dubbio; se riesci a ritrovare le pagine dell'opera precedente dove hai fatto lo stesso errore, potresti correggerle? Fatto (Credo ti riferissi solo alle Notizie di Marianne Santini...; altrove non ne ho riscontrato la presenza.)

Sì, solo nelle rime della Santini; confermo. Solo lì ho fatto il danno.

Riguardo alle immagini, il meccanismo non è complicato: meglio scaricarle dal file originale che dal djvu, poi caricarle su Commons dove devi esplicitare la licenza (libero dominio ecc.) e poi richiamarle qui con [[File:''nome del file''|''larghezza del file in px'']].--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 23:08, 2 ago 2012 (CEST)

svg

Ho catturato un'immagine, l'ho resa trasparente in png ed esportata in svg con Inkscape. Ma non sono soddisfatto del risultato.
Tu dicevi:
"meglio scaricarle dal file originale che dal djvu"
io ho copiato l'url dell'img dal djvu, ma l'ampiezza dell'immagine è equivalente al djvu mi pare.
Ad es.: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Saggio_di_rime.djvu/page50-600px-Saggio_di_rime.djvu.jpg
C'è da qualche parte un'immagine originale più definita?
--Pic57 (disc.) 15:19, 5 ago 2012 (CEST)

Difatti è la stessa cosa; quando dicevo dal file originale, mi riferivo a questo.

Prova e fammi sapere.

Ah la prossima volta scrivi nella mia talk; sono passato qui per caso, altrimenti non avrei potuto leggere le tue perplessità.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 12:40, 21 ago 2012 (CEST)

Hai ragione, andrebbero riprodotti; difatti ho aggiunto un template (immagine da inserire) come memorandum. Avevo capito che fosse tuo interesse riprodurli, in caso contrario il template me lo ricorderà, a meno che l'esperto in questa materia (Luigi62) non mi preceda e gliene sarei ben grato.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 16:41, 22 ago 2012 (CEST)

Recensione

Ciao! Vedo che stai un po'impazzendo su quella pagina 24. Devo chiederti scusa; credo di essere stato io ad assegnare il 75%. Mica vero! Indipendentemente da chi sia responsabile, però ti suggerisco di fermarti. Non ricordavo di aver lasciato quel lavoro da fare e lo farò appena finito di sistemare quella pletora di Rigaintestazione. La soluzione più veloce sarebbe una tabella (che nemmeno io sono molto bravo a costruire ma me la cavo...cavicchio) oppure credo ci sia un template RigaIndice o qualcosa del genere con cui si costruiscono le pagine di indice dei libri (non le Pagina "Indice, eh!"(che ho scoperto solo un paio di giorni fa appunto durante la sistemazione di Rigaintestazione e che ho già dimenticato dove sia. Mamma mia che testa! Naturalmente fai come preferisci ma uomo avvisato... :). Ah, Io sono tutto il contrario di uno bravo ma se ti serve una qualche mano, fai un fischio; magari hai fortuna :D --Silvio Gallio (disc.) 10:17, 20 ago 2012 (CEST)

Aggiungo- Scusa se ti uso come blocknotes (così poi lo ritrovo anch'io...) quella riga template x indice la puoi trovare (anche) qui. :) --Silvio Gallio (disc.) 14:29, 20 ago 2012 (CEST)

Ancora scuse (finirò mai?) per averti indicato una strada non esatta. Come ripeto, anch'io non sono molto conoscitore di trucchi. Vedo che hai provato il template Rigaindice che però, noto ora- non lo sapevo-, crea un link nella cifra che normalmente indica la pagina. (A posteriori è ovvio, così si possono linkare le pagine del testo). Quindi non va bene per questo problema. Ho parzialmente risolto con una tabella molto semplice e senza tanti puntini. Se poi ti interessassero le tabelle (che io e quasi tutti qui detestiamo) provo a cercare qualche esempio messo su da un 'collega' mostruosamente bravo nel settore tabelle ma che -purtroppo- è durato pochi mesi. È da un anno che non lo vediamo :( . Grazie per l'aiuto e per aver messo in luce questa carenza nella 'mia' produzione adesso mollo tutto e porto avanti queste pagine. Alla meno peggio. Non prendertela se ho 'rovinato' tutti i tuoi tentativi. Conosco come ci si sente. Giuro che non l'ho fatto con cattiveria o soprattutto non con spocchia :) Silvio Gallio (disc.) 16:44, 20 ago 2012 (CEST) Oh figurati, è stata un'occasione per imparare varie cose, come troverai scritto nella tua pagina di discussione. Sono un novizio di wikisource. Ecco una cosa che non ho capito è questa: ma per risponderti devo farlo qui, o nella tua pagina di discussione? --Pic57 (disc.) 17:02, 20 ago 2012 (CEST)

Dove scrivere? Bella domanda! La prima volta si scrive sulla pagina "Discussione" (o talk) dell'utente che vuoi contattare. È ovvio dato che così gli arriva la riga arancione. Se no come fa? Mettiamo che mi scrivi, per la risposta ho tre metodi:

• Ti rispondo direttamente nella tua pagina talk così ti arriva la riga arancione. Però se la cosa diventa lunga si perde il filo del discorso. Allora, secondo metodo:
• ti rispondo sotto il tuo messaggio e, per generare la riga, ti metto un breve avviso nella tua pagina talk (tipo "ti ho risposto da me") - la raffinatezza di un link alla stessa pagina è apprezzata ma per nulla necessaria (Io so benissimo come arrivare alla 'mia' pagina, no?). E arriviamo al terzo metodo:
• Si scrive sotto il primo post e basta. Perché siamo pochi, un paesino - anzi una frazione- e ci facciamo i fatti degli altri in continuazione. E come? occhieggiando le "Ultime Modifiche" dove le varie talk sono inevitabilmente controllabili ed evidenziate dato che, scrivendoci, le rispettive talk entrano fra gli Osservati Speciali. (Poiché mi hai scritto vedrai la mia talk in blu e di maggior spessore. ATTENZIONE! questo sistema funziona solo qui su Source, in questo paesino. Perché i cambiamenti nelle "Modifiche" della metropoli ('Pedia) sono talmente tanti e frequenti che in pochi minuti la pagina scompare.

In sintesi dopo i primi interventi puoi tranquillamente usare il terzo metodo perché ti 'terrò d'occhio' e lo faranno tutti quelli cui hai scritto e che ti hanno risposto :). Lo stesso varrà per te per tutti quelli la cui pagina di talk mostrerà la stellona blu in alto a destra vicino a Cronologia. Prova e vedrai. Il primo metodo resta ovviamente valido -anzi necessario- se vuoi/devi attirare l'attenzione dell'interlocutore che avrà la riga arancione non appena entrerà in Source. Non farti scrupolo di chiedere; chi non chiede non impara. Solo, può capitare che la risposta arrivi con calma (sai, gli impegni). Ma se non arriva uno arriva un altro. A presto! :) Silvio Gallio (disc.) 19:07, 21 ago 2012 (CEST)

Note

Ciao! due parole in fretta sulle note; (è quasi un caso che sia passato di qua perché da qualche giorno sono superimpegnato in altra vita). Hai avuto fortuna :). Mezza fortuna. Confesso che non ho mai usato quel template ma mi sembra di aver orecchiato che sia qualcosa di simile al template che unisce le note che cominciano in una pagina e finiscono nella successiva. Quello che me lo fa pensare è quel "Pt" (di cui non conosco esattamente la funzione). "a naso" il template prende un pezzo di testo o nota e lo attacca a un altro pezzo; qualcosa di simile al template "ref name..." "ref follow". Ma tutto questo per unire o comunque sistemate le cose che nel NS "Pagina" sono in un modo diverso che nel NS0, dove altrimenti le note col solito "ref" "/ref" andrebbero a tagliare il testo. L'esatta funzione dovrebbe essere spiegata QUI ma non lo è. Qualcuno sta lentamente cercando di sistemare gli Aiuti con le nuove invenzioni ma... ;( Se ti interessa conoscere a fondo la funzione dovrai rivolgerti a qualcuno di esperto. Lasciando in pace Alex che 'sta bombardato' credo che conoscano bene il trucco Xavier, Orbilius, ma anche Barbaforcuta. Anzi chiediglielo che così mi imparo la risposta :). (poi, per cortesia, alla fine del post clicca sulla firma se no mi/ci tocca andare in giro a cercare chi mi/ci ha scritto ... per stavolta ti perdono perché era mezzanotte... ;) ciao! --Silvio Gallio (disc.) 08:08, 2 set 2012 (CEST)

Continuo. Mi hai incuriosito. Allora sono andato a cercare un esempio (certo che se mi linkavi qualcosa era più facile ...). allora: in questa pagina c'è la 'nota separata' alla djvu/118. Sono quindi andato a vedere cosa c'era in quella pagina djvu/118 e ho scoperto che era una pagina di note! Allora ho dedotto questo. Le note di questo testo non sono in calce alla pagina ma raggruppate a fine testo (in altri sarà magari capitolo, dipende). Se hai messo quel template, quando di ritrovi nelle note, in questo caso qui, con un clic ti ritrovi alla pagina cui la nota fa riferimento. Adesso però non chiedermi a cosa serva una nota senza il numeretto di rimando, eh! È roba che ha scritto Vincenzo Monti; chi sono io per criticare?. hehe Ciao ancora. --Silvio Gallio (disc.) 08:21, 2 set 2012 (CEST)

Questione autori cinematografici

Caro Pic57, come avrai potuto notare abbiamo dovuto cancellare gli autori da te inseriti a causa di un dubbio espresso in bar. A questo punto converrebbe che tu li linkassi alle pagine di Wikipedia, in attesa che Wikidata (prossimo progetto che conterrà tutti gli autori e molto altro) risolva del tutto i nostri problemi.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 18:11, 14 set 2012 (CEST)

Immagine Santini

Ho dato un'occhiata e mi sembra che il lavoro sia stato fatto abbastanza bene. Mi sono permesso alcune modifiche (il Centrato e le dimensioni). Forse un po' obligua e sfocata: hai preso l'immagine dal file di origine (Internet Archive per esempio)? Se sì, non possiamo farci niente; prosegui pure così. Per qualsiasi miglioria, puoi chiedere al nostro esperto in materia: Utente:Luigi62.--Barbaforcuta (disc.) 15:37, 1 ott 2012 (CEST)

SAL delle pagine indice

Caro Pic57,

ti scrivo per spiegare il mio annullamento della tua modifica all'indice di Fogazzaro.

Una pagina indice passa a SAL 100% quando tutte le sue pagine sono al 100%.

Qualche anno fa era emerso il dubbio filosofico sul significato di SAL 100% in "metapagine" che servono a riportare contenuti di altre pagine, e abbiamo deciso che tali pagine seguono il destino dei testi al cui servizio sono state create. - εΔω 07:06, 28 feb 2015 (CET)

Caro Orbilius,

perfetto. Approfitto di te perché ho un problema di...

Numerazione nota e riga in solo testo

Vedi ad es. qui: Gramsci, Il riformismo borghese Il problema è la numerazione della Nota... in alto a destra

Inoltre la riga del Pié di pagina si vede nella pagina con l'immagine, ma scompare nella pagina solo testo.

Caro Pic57, non c'è nulla di sbagliato: nel namespace Pagina la numerazione delle note ricomincia ad ogni pagina, ma nella ricomposizione delle pagine in namespace Principale la numerazione — sempre in automatico — torna a posto.

In second luogo è normale che il piè di pagina scompaia nella pagina solo testo (quella in namespace Principale) dato che tale visualizzazione "ricompone" il testo continuo superandone la suddivisione in pagine: intestazioni e piè di pagina hanno (un po' di) senso nelle singole pagine ma non nel namespace principale dove interromperebbero la continuità del testo: ecco perciò che tali accidenti del mondo cartaceo vengono mantenuti quando graficamente sono sostanziali (cioè nel namespace Pagina), mentre quando la sostanza del testo deve essere sfrondata dagli accidenti del mondo cartaceo (cioè nel namespace Principale) tale sfrondamento avviene in automatico perché intestazioni e piè di pagina sono inseriti in aree che automaticamente non appaion in Namespace Principale. Scusa per i prestiti temerari dal lessico filosofico, ma spero che rendano l'idea. - εΔω 00:27, 3 mar 2015 (CET)

Caro Orbilius, grazie per l'esaustiva precisazione. Direi che l'avevo anche sospettato, ma... volevo esserne certo. Condivido pienamente tutta l'impostazione: "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem".

Tra colleghi

Caro Collega!

Mi stavo giusti chiedendo chi ringraziare per l'improvviso interessamento di nuovi utenti per l'antologia di Cino da Pistoia... l'ho scoperto e dunque Grazie! Casualmente ci stavo lavorando e dunque mi unisco all'allegra brigata. Io uso Wikisource a scuola (poemi epici, Promessi sposi o vari autori del programma del triennio sono spessissimo sulla mia LIM), ma non sono ancora giunto all'arruolamento di stutenti. Complimenti ancora. Accetto indicazioni su come muovermi con loro :D - εΔω 21:20, 4 mar 2015 (CET)

Caro collega, ma per carità! "Indicazioni"... diciamo che sto facendo un esperimento (di cui sono orgoglioso). Un gruppetto di studenti sta reagendo bene e spero che si tirino dietro anche i più riottosi. Anche io uso wikisource sulla LIM, e allora mi son detto: ma perché non metterli al lavoro? Non voglio parlarne granché per ora: vediamo che succede alla distanza. Comunque l'idea è che agiscano INSIEME, come una SQUADRA di operai (ma ognuno con il proprio contributo BEN VISIBILE da tutti e da me). La cosa è piaciuta perché vedono immediatamente il risultato del loro operato. Questa è una grande potenzialità educativa di wikisource: poche chiacchiere, agisci! E la cosa li gratifica molto, oltre al mio incentivo scolastico s'intende, che comunque vale per quel che vale, come ben saprai... Ora chiudiamo su Cino da Pistoia: ci siamo interessati solo alle sue Rime. Ci getteremo su... ma perché rovinarti l'effetto sorpresa? :-D Riferirò a tutti comunque dell'interessamento mostrato da un autorevole amministratore di wikisource per il loro operato.... A presto

Stavo sistemando un po' la pagina autore di Cino da Pistoia. Ma forse meglio che imposti tu, così imparo come gestire opere come queste: le Rime sono di Cino, ma sono una scelta di Carducci ecc.

Allora, caro @OrbiliusMagister qua l'arruolamento sta andando avanti alla grande. Si sta creando uno "zoccolo duro". Ho dovuto aprire una cartella su Quip per coordinare i lavori. Gli studenti (comunque maggiorenni) scrivono su quip quali pagine si impegnano a rileggere, in modo da evitare sovrapposizioni e ordinare i lavori: in genere si procede a "decine". Ho creato poi uno strumento di valutazione che si basa sul Conteggio Modifiche di wikisource. Certo, anziché usare Quip potrei fare direttamente tutto su wikisource, aprendo un Progetto, credo. Ma forse, meglio aspettare ancora un po'. E poi comunque non senza averne parlato prima con te. Ecco appunto: che ne pensi? PS: l'unica cosa che sta andando male è la mia ricerca di testi senza copyright, come forse avrai letto in giro. Prima o poi imparerò :-( Pic57 (disc.) 07:29, 14 mar 2015 (CET)

Idillii spezzati

Su segnalazione di @Margherita, ho visto che la scansione di Idillii era "rotta" (mancavano alcune pagine in fondo al libro) e l'ho sostituita al volo con un'altra scansione, migliore, da IA: IA. Adesso mi pare a posto. Va sistamata l'ultima decina di pagine. Mi pare che l'edizione sia identica, le pagine corrispondono, va comunque verificato in modo paranoide :-) --Alex brollo (disc.) 07:54, 10 mar 2015 (CET)

Grazie @Alex brollo. Avrai visto che su Internet Archive le due edizioni erano apparentemente identiche. Mi sono accorto della lacuna delle ultime pagine quando ormai avevo trascritto il libro. Ho aggiunto il testo finale scansionandolo direttamente dalla copia che tu ora hai importato. Stavo giusto leggendo sul manuale come sostituire i dejavu, cosa che non mi è sembrata proprio semplice. Poi ho visto che @Margherita ci stava lavorando e ho lasciato andare. Sì comunque hai ragione: val la pena essere paranoici e controllare tutto, ma proprio tutto, prima di importare. Ho riletto e sistemato le ultime pagine a SAL 75%

Nonostante tutti i controlli, capita di dover sistemare dei file djvu. Non siamo in molti a maneggiarli senza impazzirci, talora servono spostamenti massicci di pagine già trascritte e quindi è utile avere un bot... a ma i djvu piacciono molto, se ti servirà chiedi tranquillamente, mi ci diverto :-)

Ho ritoccato l'ultima pagina SAL 75%. --Alex brollo (disc.) 21:53, 10 mar 2015 (CET)

Sul Fascismo

Caro Pic57,

ho una brutta notizia.

Data la natura sospetta del testo di Gramsci da te caricato ho effettuato una rapida indagine, ricostruendo la tradizione del testo copia su copia.

Il testo deriva in ultima analisi dal pdf presente su Liberliber. Esso è stato utilizzato da qualcuno della casa editrice Altrimedia per produrre il testo nell'edizione che poi da qualcuno è stata caricata su Internet Archive, dove è stato trasformato nel djvu infine utilizzato da te qui.

Il problema grosso è che il testo di Liberliber è proposto con licenza CC BY-NC-SA. Gli editori di Altrimedia hanno offuscato la provenienza del loro testo per poterlo proporre in vendita, contravvenendo così a tutte le clausole della licenza d'uso di Liberliber. Su Internet Archive non c'è un controllo del copyright come da noi, dunque tu l'hai utilizzato qui in buona fede, ma in realtà a noi è arrivato un testo riutilizzato illegalmente e sui cui qualcuno potrebbe rivalersi: non abbiamo il diritto morale di perpetuare questa infrazione di copyright. Il testo andrà dunque cancellato. Se ti riesce salva il salvabile di quenato bbiamo trascritto perché a breve passerò a cancellare tutto. - εΔω 17:27, 11 mar 2015 (CET)

Capito. Cancella pure. Se lo avessi visto su Liber Liber non l'avrei caricato. Vuol dire che guarderò anche lì prima di caricare qualcosa.

Indice-Commons

Scusa Pic57, abbiamo un problema. L'ultimo indice da te creato non risponde ai criteri proposti nella nostra guida. Ti suggeriamo di seguire scupolosamente i consigli sulla scelta del nome perché eventuali errori sono difficili da sistemare: Cognome autore - Titolo libro, Volume (se diviso in volumi e tomi ecc.), Anno di pubblicazione.djvu, è lo schema principe (una variante, quando è importante anche l'editore, la trovi qui). Buon lavoro. --Xavier121 19:36, 20 mar 2015 (CET)

Ok, dimmi se devo ricaricarlo come corradini-sopraleviedelnuovoimpero-1912.djvu. Ho formattato solo qualche pagina. Eventualmente fammi sapere qui. Comunque almeno stavolta ho caricato un libro privo di copyright.

Indice:Corradini - Sopra le vie del nuovo impero, 1912.djvu, --Xavier121 00:12, 21 mar 2015 (CET)

Fatto. https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Corradini_-_Sopra_le_vie_del_nuovo_impero,_1912.djvu. Cancella pure il vecchio

Re:Malombra

Sì, penso proprio che le edizioni siano due come mi ha spiegato Alex al quale avevo esposto i miei dubbi e problemi riguardo la rilettura di Malombra. Questa rilettura mi sta facendo disperare. Io ho una edizione del 1886 di Giuseppe Galli che viene riportata come terza edizione. Sarei contenta se andassi a leggere i messaggi relativi che ci siamo scambiati al proposito. Stasera te li cerco e te li linco. A più tardi.--Paola (disc.) 19:24, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Eccomi. Leggi [1] e poi One word message.... nella mia talk. Ciao--Paola (disc.) 21:58, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Consolati. Sono contenta che ad essere "tardi" siamo in due!! Anch'io avevo pensato come te. Ora rivolgo la tua domanda ad Alex che, senza dubbio, saprà darci una risposta.--Paola (disc.) 23:23, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Fatto! Leggi qui Ancora Malombra --Paola (disc.) 23:57, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Richiedi una borsa "Alessio Guidetti" per Wikimania

Ciao Pic57, ti segnalo il programma borse di partecipazione "Alessio Guidetti" per Wikimania 2015, che potrebbe esserti utile per partecipare al raduno mondiale degli utenti Wikimedia. Abbiamo prorogato i termini, c'è tempo fino alle 23.59 di martedì 28 aprile per fare richiesta.

Ti scrivo perché ho visto che ti dai da fare da queste parti e non hai ancora fatto richiesta. Perdonami se la segnalazione non è di tuo interesse. Nemo 10:09, 26 apr 2015 (CEST)

Grazie @Nemo_bis, non sapevo neanche dell'esistenza di questa bella iniziativa, per la quale... diciamo che sarei un po' fuori target ahimé per via dell'età, come potrai desumere dallo user wiki. Spero piuttosto che la cosa interessi qualche mio studente, magari l'anno prossimo: quest'anno qualcuno di loro ha cominciato a darsi da fare, ma non credo abbastanza. Comunque ho colto l'occasione per iscrivermi a wikimedia italia.

Lo cunto

Forse ho capito il problema delle note, ricade nel proverbio "il meglio è nemico del bene". Non serviva quel lavoraccio! Io ho qualche tool ancora poco pubblicizzato, ma facendone a meno la procedura più comoda è:

• correggere il testo lasciandolo dov'è (ossia, le note in fondo);
• circondare ciascuna nota con un <ref>...</ref>; occhio alle note sulla stessa riga;
• selezionarle una a una e trascinarle nel punto giusto del testo. Fine.

Il ref name e il ref follow vanno usati solo nelle note molto lunghe, che continuano su più pagine.

Volendo rileggere il testo dopo aver messo le note al loro posto, è comodo "rimetterle in fondo pagina" con lo strumento Spostamento note; finito di rileggere, si rimettono dov'erano cliccando di nuovo Spostamento note.

Raccomando anche di seguire le indicazioni che ho messo in Discussioni indice, compreso il modello di rigaintestazione (testo minuscolo inserito in un template Sc) e di aggiungere il template RuleLeft|8em nel footer, prima del tag references.

Beninteso: è stato fatto un lavoro molto buono, e molto faticoso, grazie! Sistemare la formattazione è molto, ma molto meno faticoso che correggere un testo così ostico. --Alex brollo (disc.) 00:09, 28 apr 2015 (CEST)

Mah sì, non ti preoccupare non sono permaloso. Venivo dalle rime estravaganti del bandello dove invece usavo quel sistema... ci avevo preso la mano. A proposito, dai un'occhiata anche lì se ti capita.

vedo! Là però per merito di poem non dà fastidio (non spezza il testo). Una curiosità.... come hai pescato questa curiosa sintassi?? Per ottenere che risultato? E... i nomi delle annotazioni, li crei e inserisci tutti pazientemente a mano? Approfitto per congratularmi con te per la scoperta dell'uso dei tag <i>...</i> al posto dei maledetti apostrofi, bravo!!! --Alex brollo (disc.) 12:08, 28 apr 2015 (CEST)

La "curiosa sintassi", caro @Alex brollo, era strettamente connessa alla rilettura SAL 75%. Se si rilegge a quel livello di profondità si ha il tempo di creare dei tag apparentemente complessi che in realtà sono dei copia e incolla. Voglio dire: sfrutto la memoria del computer per i tag che sono dei copia-e-incolla quasi uguali, mentre il cervello è impegnato nella rilettura. Tutto è nato dal fatto che credevo che - trovandosi le note in pagine diverse dal testo a cui si riferivano - dovessi comunque usare il <ref follow>...</ref> e il <ref name>...</ref>. Pertanto procedevo così (dopo aver sistemato le sezioni della pagina):

• stabilivo il nome del tag ref con il seguente criterio p|numeropagina-numeroverso. Avevo letto da qualche parte nella guida che questo era il criterio consigliato per evitare nomi di tag uguali
• creavo il primo tag ref follow e lo copiavo in memoria pc (ad esempio <ref follow="p307-v6">.
• correggevo e chiudevo il follow.
• Passavo alla nota successiva incollando la prima parte del ref e cambiando solo il numero del verso e così via fino alla fine delle note
• Infine passsavo al testo. Incollavo il tag follow nel punto del testo utile, rinominandolo "name" (<ref follow="p307-v6"> diventa <ref name="p307-v6">

Tutto qua. Intanto ho cominciato ad usare il PostOCR, anche se per testi come quello del buon Basile è utile fino ad un certo punto. Però Intestazione e piè di pagina sono già qualcosa. Il memo regex ora lo vedo, perché ho anche la bottoniera, e leggo Carica regex e salva regex: ma non ho ancora capito bene come funzionano. Ho capito che con il Trova e sostituisci se spunto Ricorda questa sostituzione, in effetti se le ricorda e il PostOCR me le esegue nella pagina. Per ora sono a questo livello.

Wikisource a scuola

Bella la tua iniziativa. Ti segnalo che Al liceo Pascal di via Corti di Milano è iniziato un progetto di realizzazione di una biblioteca scolastica digitale che raccoglie in modo comodo gli ebook in formato epub, raccolti secondo l'ordine dei programmi ministeriali. Il contatto con la Biblioteca comunale di via Valvassori Peroni - sezione ipovedenti porta a sottolineare la possibilità di usare gli ebook anche per la didattica dei BES, ipovedenti e dislessici. Per ora in via Corti si era solo alla prima fase: caricamento sul PC dell'aula di informatica degli .epub. Mizar (ζ Ursae Maioris) (disc.) 06:02, 24 lug 2015 (CEST)

Studenti

Ottima idea quella di far rileggere agli studenti :-) Facci sapere come va.

PS: da una discussione con Marco Calvo su Facebook mi è parso di capire che loro gli ISBN sugli epub (almeno) li mettono. Aubrey (disc.) 16:14, 18 apr 2016 (CEST)

@Aubrey Sì, mi pare sia stata un'ottima idea perché così si aggiungono loro via via che si registrano e io li posso aiutare senza perderli di vista. Sugli ISBN ho chiarito tutto, con AIE. Ti scrivo in privato. Pic57 (disc.) 20:19, 18 apr 2016 (CEST)

Cinema

Ciao. Io sono una funzionaria INPS, forse ti posso aiutare a trovare le date di morte se mi fornisci nome cognome e data di nascita. Almeno ci provo. Lagrande (disc.) 13:02, 15 gen 2025 (CET)

Ciao @Lagrande. Uao!

Purtroppo per gli autori di incerto © non posso risalire alla data di nascita perché neanche l'IA è in grado di fornirmela. Quindi per loro mi rimangono solo questi dati:

• un nome e un cognome,
• l'anno in cui ha pubblicato l'articolo o l'opera
• il titolo
• la rivista

Si può ragionare sul fatto che non possano avere meno di 25 anni dalla data di pubblicazione dell'articolo e risalire all'anno di nascita... ma è un lavoraccio. Tuttavia se ci vuoi provare, qua trovi la tabella che costruisco man mano che scandaglio riviste e simili. Il punto interrogativo sta per: "sospendo perché NON conosco la data di morte dell'autore e quindi NON sono in grado di stabilire se l'opera è in Pubblico Dominio". Al momento ci sono una decina di nominativi con il ? Pic57 (disc.) 18:00, 15 gen 2025 (CET)

ːTemo che senza data di nascita non arriverò a niente, ma comunque ci provo. --Lagrande (disc.) 09:42, 16 gen 2025 (CET)

Lilypond

Programma di incisione musicale. Ecco quel che può fare:

• Partiture

Chi vuol dare una mano è benvenuto/a.

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Versioni in uso

• LilyPond 2.24.4 released - July 21, 2024

Editor in uso:

• Frescobaldi 4.03 da novembre 2025
• Frescobaldi 3.3

Tech News: 2025-21

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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

• From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
• Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Speciale:Blocca?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [2]
• Later this week, the Speciale:PagineSpeciali listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [3]
• The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Speciale:Blocca may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [5]
• The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [6]
• User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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Indice:Al mio pregar t'arrendi.pdf

Ciao, ho segnalato nelle pagine di discussione della 3 e della 4 alcuni probabili errori nello spartito (il codice dell'estensione è troppo complicato per me per metterci mano). Grazie! Cruccone (disc.) 09:50, 21 mag 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-22

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

• A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

• Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.
• The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Speciale:PagineRichieste, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. [7]
• This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
• Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
• The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. [8]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The previously deprecated ipblocks views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new block and block_target views instead.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.

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Tech News: 2025-23

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 Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

• It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [9]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [10]
• From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [11]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Tech News: 2025-24

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 Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

• The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [12]

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Mostra attività nelle discussioni"). [13][14]
• Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [15]
• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [16]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
• Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [17][18]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-25

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

• You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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Tech News: 2025-26

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

• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [19]

Updates for editors

• Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [20]
• Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [21]
• A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [22]

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [23]
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [24]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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Notizie tecniche: 2025-27

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Rilevamento settimanale

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.

Aggiornamenti per gli editori

• AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [25]
• Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. [26][27]
• A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
• Vedi tutta 31 community-submitted tasks che era risolta la settimana scorsa. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [28]

Aggiornamenti per i contribuenti tecnici

• Aggiornamenti dettagliati del codice entro la fine di questa settimana: MediaWiki

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File:Ars et Labor, 1906 vol. I (page 372 crop).jpg

Ciao. Scusa ma ho ricroppato e ricaricato questa immagine perchè nel ritagliarla avevi "mangiato" una parte del decoro in alto a dx... ;-) Già che c'ero l'ho ripulita, alzato la risoluzione e resa in b/n. -- TrameOscure (disc.) 21:06, 5 lug 2025 (CEST)

Anzi, vedo ora che di quell'immagine ci sono svariate versioni, pure migliori e a risoluzione più alta, tipo File:Ars et Labor, 1906 vol. I (page 164 crop).jpg. Potrebbe essere un'idea usare sempre la stessa img indipendentemente dalla pag. di origine, come discusso qui.

Da questa categoria si può cercare le immagini "riciclabili" che già esistono. TrameOscure (disc.) 21:20, 5 lug 2025 (CEST)

@TrameOscure intervieni pure come pensi sia meglio. Non mi offendo, anzi... In genere sbianco solo lo sfondo delle immagini-decorazioni... Pic57 (disc.) 21:34, 5 lug 2025 (CEST)

Ok. E' anche più comodo per te, se già c'è un'immagine caricata su Commons, riutilizzarla anzichè ritagliarla e sbiancarla ;-) -- TrameOscure (disc.) 16:39, 6 lug 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-29

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

• Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist. [29][30]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [31]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post for more details.

Meetings and events

• WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!
• WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!

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Tech News: 2025-30

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

• The Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regioni" filter. [32]
• Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
• The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from beta.wmflabs.org to beta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon. [33]

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Tech News: 2025-31

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 Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [34]
• On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [35]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
  • Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors
  • Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
  • A dozen visions for wikitext!
  • Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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Tech News: 2025-32

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 can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [36]
• Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [37]
• Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [38]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [39][40]
• Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [41]
• Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [42]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
  • Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse
  • Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
  • Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience
  • Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next

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Tech News: 2025-33

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

• The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [43]
• The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
• The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [44]
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [45]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [46]
• Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [47]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-34

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

• 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 about this feature. [48]
• An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [49]
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [50]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [51]
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [52]
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [53]
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [54]
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [55]
• View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-35

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

• Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65]
• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [66]
• Administrators can now access the Speciale:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Speciale:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [67]
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [68][69]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [70]
• View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [71]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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Tech News: 2025-36

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 Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page. [72]
• The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. [73]
• On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. [74][75]
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
• The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

Meetings and events

• Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
  • Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
  • La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.

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Tech News: 2025-37

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 Editing team is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information. [76]
• When browsing a wiki (like en.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more. [77]
• When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes. [78]
• Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more. [79][80]
• Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results. [81]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-38

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

• References lists that are made using the <references/> tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. [82]
• Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more.
• Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
  • for the intitle: keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors [83]
  • for both intitle: and insource: keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g. \uHHHH). [84]
• When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results. [85]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor. [86]

Updates for technical contributors

• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview, or leave feedback onwiki. Learn more.
• Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more. [87]
• The new Unicode 17.0 version has been released. The datasets on Commons for the Module:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
• Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
• A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information from Wikimedia Enterprise has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.

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Notizie tecniche: 2025-39

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Rilevamento settimanale

• Il 24 settembre alle 15:00 UTC, tutti gli utenti dei siti Wikimedia saranno sottoposti a un breve periodo di sola lettura a causa di un cambio programmato del server del data center. Il team Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) della Wikimedia Foundation reindirizzerà tutto il traffico da un server primario al suo backup. È possibile ascoltare il cambio utilizzando lo strumento "Ascolta Wikipedia", dove si sentirà l'interruzione delle modifiche per alcuni minuti durante la fase di sola lettura, per poi riprendere. Questo cambio di server del data center, che avviene due volte l'anno, garantisce l'affidabilità testando il data center di backup, in modo che i nostri siti possano rimanere online anche in caso di guasto del data center primario. Puoi scoprire di più riguardo al processo sul blog di Diff.

Aggiornamenti per gli editori

• I curatori di oltre sessanta altri Wikidizionari saranno presto in grado di richiamare funzioni da Wikifunzioni e integrarle nelle loro voci. Una funzione prende uno o più input e li trasforma in un output desiderato, come aggiungere numeri, convertire miglia in metri, calcolare il tempo rimamente, o declinare una parola in un caso. Si uniranno ai 65 Wikidizionari che hanno già accesso all'incorporazione di Wikifunzioni richiamate. Entro la fine dell'anno, sono in atto piani di espandere a più Wikidizionari e ad Incubatore.
• Una nuova funzione parser è stata aggiunta: {{#contentmodel}}. I modificatori dei Template e gli amministratori possono usarlo per ottenere il nome localizzato o canonico del modello di contenuto di una pagina specifica. La funzione rende più semplice creare e modificare messaggi di sistema, come MediaWiki:editinginterface, anche quando modifichi il tipo della pagina, come pagine wiki, JavaScript, CSS o JSON. [88]
• Aggiungendo o modificando un DISPLAYTITLE per un articolo che utilizza Visual editor non sarà più non funzionante. I contributori che utilizzano la modalità VisualEditor per modificare il {{DISPLAYTITLE}} non avranno più il testo letterale 'DISPLAYTITLE' o una sua versione localizzata aggiunta al loro articolo.

Una lista di pagine che che potrebbe essere stata colpita e andrebbe pulita è documentata in questo ticket.

• Gli utenti Beta dell'app Android Wikimedia posioni ora provare la scheda attività, che sostituisce la scheda di Modifica. La nuova scheda offre suggerimenti personalizzati durante la lettura, modifica e attività di donazioni , semplificando la navigazione e rendendo l'uso dell'app più coinvolgente.
• Vedi tutta 12 community-submitted tasks che era risolta la settimana scorsa.

Aggiornamenti per i contribuenti tecnici

• Aggiornamenti dettagliati del codice entro la fine di questa settimana: MediaWiki

A fondo

• Gli utenti di Wikifunzioni possono ora importare molti fatti che riguardano valori di coordinate geografiche, quantità e tempo da Wikidata. Questo è stato reso possibile dalla creazione di modelli di Wikifunzioni per quei valori, ciò li rende disponibili per essere usati in funzioni di Wikifunzioni.

Scopri di più riguardo a come funziona in questo video e la newsletter di Wikifunzioni del 1 agosto (per le quantità) e la sistemarmi del 22 agosto (per le coordinate geografiche).

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Notizie tecniche: 2025-40

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Rilevamento settimanale

• Un aggiornamento maggiore del software è stato fatto a Phabricator. Il nuovo aggiornamento introduce miglioramenti delle prestazioni, un'interfaccia di ricerca rinnovata, miglioramenti alla ricerca attività Maniphest, aggiornamenti ai pagine di profilo degli utenti e alla pagina di lavoro dei progetti, nuove funzionalità per l'automazione di Herald, oltre a input di testo generale, miglioramenti dell'esperienza mobile e altro ancora. [89]

Aggiornamenti per gli editori

• The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
• The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
• On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Speciale:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [90]
• The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
• The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Speciale:Contributi and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
• There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [91]
• Una nuova wiki è stata creata: una Wikiquote in malese (q:ms:) [92]
• Vedi tutta 21 community-submitted tasks che era risolta la settimana scorsa. Per esempio, la Carta delle Info Utente ora mostra i blocchi globali attivi. [93]

Aggiornamenti per i contribuenti tecnici

• Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
• A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
• Aggiornamenti dettagliati del codice entro la fine di questa settimana: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:52, 29 set 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-41

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

• Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.

Updates for editors

• Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. [94]
• New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. [95]
• Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team. [96]
• An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog. [97]
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved. [98]

Updates for technical contributors

• The field rev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor of content_sha1 in the content database table. See the announcement for more information.
• The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement. [99]
• Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the rest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. [100]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:23, 6 ott 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-42

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

• Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.

Updates for editors

• Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage. [101]
• This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change. [102]
• Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account. [103][104]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see. [105]

Updates for technical contributors

• The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:59, 13 ott 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-43

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

• To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. [106]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [107]

Updates for technical contributors

• The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the rest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. [108]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:36, 20 ott 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-44

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

• The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
• Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [109]

Updates for technical contributors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
• The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Speciale:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [110]
• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
• A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
• 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. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [111]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:31, 27 ott 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-45

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

• Administrators will now find that Speciale:UnisciCronologia is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). [112]
• For users with "Iscrivimi automaticamente agli argomenti" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Aggiungi argomento" or "Rispondi" 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. [113]
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [114]
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [115]
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [116]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [117]

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working. [118]
• On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [119]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:34, 3 nov 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-46

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Mostra attività nelle discussioni". [120]
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [121]
• Using the "Visualizza anteprima" or "Mostra modifiche" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [122][123][124]
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [125]
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [126]
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [127]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [128]

Updates for technical contributors

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [129]
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [130]
• MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10. [131]
• A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [132]
• The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [133][134]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:38, 10 nov 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-47

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

• The Reader Experience team is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
• Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (s:min:) [135]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
• Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:26, 17 nov 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-48

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

• Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. [136]
• Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Abilita strumenti di modifica nella modalità sorgente" preference be set. [137]
• Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [138]

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey. [139]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for format=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). [140]
• The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:56, 24 nov 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-49

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

• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
• The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
• Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [141]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [142]
  • a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [143]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:57, 1 dic 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-50

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

• Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

• Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
• Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
• Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
• Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [144]
• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
• A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [145]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [146]

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [147]
• Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [148]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:45, 8 dic 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-51

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

• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [149]

Updates for technical contributors

• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Speciale:CercaCollegamenti, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [150]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:02, 15 dic 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-52

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

• From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [151]
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [152]

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [153]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:45, 22 dic 2025 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-03

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

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [154]
• The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [155][156][157][158]
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [159]

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [160]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:33, 12 gen 2026 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-04

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

• The tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered. [161]
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added. [162][163][164][165]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed. [166]

Updates for technical contributors

• As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 19 gen 2026 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-05

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

• Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
• All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
• Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [167]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. [168]

Updates for technical contributors

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [169]
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:17, 26 gen 2026 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-06

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

• The "Informazioni pagina" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [170]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [171]

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [172]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Weekly highlight

• Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:43, 2 feb 2026 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-07

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

Updates for editors

• Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
• A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more. [173]
• When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. [174]
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. [175][176]
• The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. [177]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:) [178]
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:) [179]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new global user group has been created: Bot locali. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [180]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. [181]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 10 feb 2026 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-08

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 SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. [182]

Updates for editors

• The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog. [183]
• The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add #siteNotice { display: none; } to MediaWiki:Minerva.css. [184][185]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected. [186]

Updates for technical contributors

• New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more. [187]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:17, 16 feb 2026 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-09

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

• Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. [188]

Updates for editors

• The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. [189]
• Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. [190][191]
• The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
• The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. [192]

Updates for technical contributors

• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. [193]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:03, 23 feb 2026 (CET)

Segnalazione antologia spartiti

Ciao! Ho notato la tua passione nel trascrivere spartiti, ti segnalo la seguente antologia:

https://archive.org/details/neretti-canti-giuochi-danze/mode/1up

Vedi tu se ti può interessare.

Ciao. Myron Aub (disc.) 21:23, 27 feb 2026 (CET)

Ciao @Myron Aub, ma certo che mi interessa! E' una testimonianza significativa della concezione educativa dell'epoca e anche della musica popolare toscana (per eccellenza "italiana" e quindi patriottica).

Ho inserito il libro nella mia lista su IA. Diciamo che è "in coda".

Un caro saluto. Pic57 (disc.) 22:28, 27 feb 2026 (CET)