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Volume 20

Issue 8

8 June 2024

Wikimedia Foundation – CC BY-SA 4.0

News and notes

Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.

Paramedics Worldwide – CC 3.0 BY-SA NL

Technology report

New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?

India Illustrated – PD

Deletion report

The lore of Kalloor

Hoaxes and the genesis of information.

Teacher61 – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

In the media

National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?

Wikimedia Foundation – CC BY-SA 4.0

News from the WMF

Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

Outlining progress against the four key goals.

? – PD

Opinion

Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

A letter.

Bagnoli et al. – CC BY 4.0

Recent research

ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.

Fred Kruger – PD

Administrators' newsletter

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available T6086

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Tech News weekly

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

Recent changes

Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [1]
Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [2]
If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [3][4]
Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [5]
Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [6]

Problems

Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [7]

Future changes

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