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*Feature news*
- [image: Advanced item] Two new parser functions will be available this
week: {{#dir
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#dir>
}} and {{#bcp47
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#bcp47>
}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on
Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343131> from the "what links here"
database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by
replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons
will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359761>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366623>
- Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire
namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance *Wikipedia:*
or *Wikisource:* namespaces) if they understand the known limitations
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/FAQ#WPNS>.
For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools>
in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to
"Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translations?message=MediaWiki%3ATimeline-tracking-category&namespace=8>.
Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local
creation to match.
*Project updates*
- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki
collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful
collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a
brief survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/WikiProjects>
or share your thoughts on the talkpage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Campaigns/WikiProjects>. The teams
are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on
non-English wikis.
- [image: Advanced item] The new parser is being rolled out on
Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and
Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365367> to Parsoid last week. For
more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification>.
*Learn more*
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a
summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and
technology area
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/05/interested-in-product-and-tech-here-are-some-wikimania-sessions-you-dont-want-to-miss/>
.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bulletin/2024/07-02>
is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter/2024/July>
is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages;
Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and
more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Newsletters/31>
is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Reports/July_2024>
is available.
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