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Technical Community Newsletter/2023/July

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The Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter shares highlights and news from the past quarter and information about events coming up in the next quarter.

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Highlights

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What's new

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  • The RealMe extension was deployed on Wikimedia wikis. It allows marking your Mastodon user profile link as verified.
  • The unmaintained and dysfunctional GWToolset extension got removed from Wikimedia Commons.
  • Bot operators, tool maintainers, gadget and script writers, and other developers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their code for IP masking. The new policy and an associated FAQ contain information about which users are allowed to access the IP addresses of temporary accounts. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023.
  • mediawiki.org is now hosted on the Mediawiki-on-Kubernetes infrastructure.

Conferences and meetups

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Community metrics (Phabricator and Gerrit)

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  • Number of tasks created in Q2/2023: 7166
  • Number of tasks closed in Q2/2023: 7151
  • Number of different people who created tasks in Q2/2023: 1028
  • Number of different people who closed tasks in Q2/2023: 490

Recent blog posts

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