Wikipedia:Mercat Cross
Walcome tae the Mercat Cross! This is the airt tae tauk aboot the technical wirkins o the Wikipedia.
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(en) Celtic Knot Online Gathering this September
[eedit soorce](in Inglis) Hi, I'd just like to let you know about the "Celtic Knot" online gathering that's happening on the 23rd September 2025. The gathering is an opportunity for editors who edit in different languages, especially Celtic and minoritised languages, to connect and learn from each other.
More information and registration is here. Gemma Coleman (WMUK) (tauk) 11:02, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
Volunteer role: Scots Wiki community support
[eedit soorce](in Inglis) Since 2020, Wikimedia UK has been supporting the Scots Wiki community with a series of editathons / writing drives. We’re currently looking for a new volunteer to help add some capacity in this area of work, as the existing volunteer is stepping down, after five years of greatly-appreciated work. Ideally this person would be a Scots speaker / writer who’s got some Wiki skills, but we’re aware that that’s a small group of people! If you’re a Scots speaker / writer, we’re very happy to teach Wiki skills, and we’re open to exploring how this might work if you’ve got the requisite Wiki skills, and are interested in learning more about the Scots language.
We estimate that this role would take around 1-2 hours per week, plus time spent in Zoom sessions (up to now, 2 x 2 hour sessions per writing drive). Writing Drives take place around every 2 months and are currently attended by a small but regular group of editors. You can see the progress we’ve made over the years on the Dashboards here.
You’d be working mainly with Sara Thomas, (Programme Manager at Wikimedia UK), and so duties can be divided, but this role would/could involve:
- Creating & updating on-wiki event pages like this
- Deciding on themes
- Creating worklists (manually, or using PetScan or Wikidata)
- Using the Event Registration tool to create registration pages like this
- Updating the project page with events & outputs
- Creating Event Dashboards
- Advertising the events
- On-wiki posts
- Off-wiki locations like Facebook, Discord, and the WMUK Scotwiki mailing list
- Researching & reaching out to other places in which to advertise
- Hosting or co-hosting the regular zoom sessions which form part of the Writing Drives
- Wikimedia UK Zoom can be used!
- Contributing to / leading on new ideas for events & campaigns
What we can offer:
As well as training in Wiki-skills should you not already have these, and support and regular contact with the Wikimedia UK team, we are also interested in offering a scholarship to a relevant conference to present about the work and to help support future work.
How to apply:
Please contact sara.thomas@wikimedia.org.uk outlining your relevant skills and experience, and we’ll set up a chat.
Cheers! :) Sara Thomas (WMUK) (tauk) 13:46, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
Campaign Events extension
[eedit soorce](in Inglis) Hi folks. Posting here with my WMUK staff hat on, but I also do editing with my volunteer account user:lirazelf. I'm using my staff account for this as it would be mostly in my staff capacity that I'd be using this extension, so seemed best for transparency. I'd like to propose that the community consider enabling the Campaign Events extension for the wiki - details here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents.
I'm currently using the deployment on meta for events for Scots wiki - (example here, linking to pages like Wikipedia:Mey-Juin 2025 Writin Drive. The extension lets you create Event Registration pages on the wiki (so no need to use Eventbrite or other off-wiki tool), message participants through their email (good for sending zoom links, updates etc), which is really useful! There's also other features like the collaboration list, which I reckon could be positive for developing community here, but that could only happen if the extension is enabled on this wiki.
As well as metawiki, I use the tool on en.wiki and wikidata, for community training events, and international collaboration events, and I'm a fan - I hope that others would be able to use it here too.
First step to enabling the extension (it's available for all Wikipedias) is to gather consensus (as per this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Deployment_status) - so starting that off :) Sara Thomas (WMUK) (tauk) 16:16, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
- Ay - dinna see ony skaith in pittin iss ti eese CiphriusKane (tauk) 08:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
- (in Inglis) Update to this - there's a plan to make the right to use this automatic for autoconfirmed users for small & medium wikis which have the extension enabled.see here for more info. Sara Thomas (WMUK) (tauk) 12:12, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
Yer wiki will be in raed-anerly suin
[eedit soorce]Raed iss message in anither leid • Please help translate to your language
The Wikimedie Foondation will be switchin the traffec atween its data centres. Iss will mak shuir that Wikipaedia an the ither Wikimedie wiki kin stey onwab e'en efter a muckle mishanterin.
Aw traffec will switch on 24 September. The test will stert at 15:00 UTC.
Unfortunate, acause o some leemits in MedieWiki, aw editin maun stap whiles the switch is makit. We apologise fur iss disruption, an we ar wirkin tae minimise it in futur.
Ae banner will be shawn on aw wikis 30 meenits afore iss operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation. You can contribute to the translation or proofreading of this banner text.
Ye will be able tae raed, but nae edit, aa wikis fur ae smaa period o time.
- Ye willnae be able tae edit fur up til ae oor on Wadensday 24 September 2025.
- If ye try tae edit or hain durin thir times, ye will be gien ae error message. We howp that nae edits will gang astray durin the meenits but we canna mak shuir o'it. Gin ye see the error message, then please wait til athing is back tae normal. Then ye sud be able tae mak hain o yer edit. But, we recommend that ye mak a copy o yer chynges aforehaund, juist in case.
Ither effecks:
- Backgroond tasks will be slaw an some micht drap. Reid airtins minna be updatit as quick as normal. Gin ye mak ae airticle that is awreidy airtint elsewyes, the airtin will remain reid fur langer nor uisual. Some lang-rinnin scripts will hae tae stap.
- We expect the code deployments tae happen as wi ony ither week. Houaniver, some case-by-case code freezes cud happen gin the operation needs thaim efterwarts.
- GitLab willnae be available fur aboot 90 meenits.
Iss projeck micht be pit aff gin needit. Ye kin read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Ony chynges will be annoonced in the schedule.
Please share iss information wi yer commonity.Trizek (WMF) (Collogue) 15:41, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
Migration to Parsoid
[eedit soorce]Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the Parser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation.
There is more information about our roll-out strategy available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.