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*Weekly highlight* - All wikis will be read-only <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch> for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1727276400>. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers. *Updates for editors* - Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_Suggested_edits_project/Alt_Text_Experiment> after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_Suggested_edits_project#Hypothesis_2_Add_an_Image_Suggested_Edit>". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_Suggested_edits_project/Alt_Text_Experiment> . - The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Design_System_Team/Color/Design_documentation#Updates> for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes. - [image: Advanced item] It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368166> - Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Account_vanishing> system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370595>[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372223> - View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks> . *Updates for technical contributors* - [image: Advanced item] From Wikimedia Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise>: - The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/enhanced-free-api/>. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too. - The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/structured-contents-snapshot-api/>) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/hugging-face-dataset/>). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content. *In depth* - [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split>, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly <https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org>" and "main <https://query-main.wikidata.org>" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint <https://query.wikidata.org> will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/September_2024_scaling_update> . *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/39> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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