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  • This page notifies editors of recent clarifications of or changes to policy or best current practice, major changes to templates, and the like.
  • Wikimedia-wide tech news is available at meta:Tech/News/Latest.
  • Please note that older news listed here may no longer be current, and may in fact have been supplanted by newer standards of practice among editors.
  • Please add news at the top!


2024

December 2024

March 2024

  • For taxonomic-name linking there are now two distinct templates: {{taxlink}} (Now with more Lua!!!), which is for taxonomic names for which enwikt DOES NOT have an entry, used as before, eg, {{taxlink|Rosa noentry|species}}, and {{taxfmt}} (New!!!, with Lua!!!), to be used for taxonomic names for which enwikt DOES have an entry, used just as {{taxlink}}, eg, {{taxfmt|Rosa multiflora|species}}. {{taxfmt}} will soon (months) have been applied automagically to all taxonomic names that currently have some link and eventually (many months) even to all now-unlinked taxonomic names. At present this just addresses formatting (various configurations of italics) and makes searches easier. In the more distant future it may make other changes (improvements???) easier. The resulting taxon formatting should be the same for both templates, but categorization will be different, mostly effecting only those with an active interest in taxonomic names.

February 2024

  • February 29: Following WT:RFM discussion, the Khanty (kca) and Mansi (mns) languages have been split into the Khanty and Mansi families, respectively, each consisting of three languages.

January 2024

2023

October 2023

March 2023

February 2023

January 2023

Unicode Proposals

2022

December 2022

  • Just in time for the new year, the translation boxes now use CSS columns (a second attempt after the first aborted try in August). This means that the number of columns in the translation box adapts to the width of the user's screen. There are also width options: an entry can contain {{trans-top|column-width=narrow}} to create a box with many short translations, or {{trans-top|column-width=wide}} to hold exceptionally long translations. If you find that you are now seeing too few columns on your screen, follow the instructions at T:trans-top#Personal customisation to tweak it to your tastes, or leave feedback at the Grease Pit.

November 2022

October 2022

Meaning of consensus for discussions which are not formal votes

Where the consensus of editors is required for discussions other than formal votes at Wiktionary:Votes (for example, in discussion rooms such as Wiktionary:Beer parlour and on discussion pages such as Wiktionary:Requests for deletion and Wiktionary:Requests for verification), the support of at least two-thirds of the editors taking a supporting or opposing stance in a discussion on an issue is a hint for the threshold for consensus, but it is not set in stone. As a result, the consensus determination is somewhat indeterminate and can take into account considerations other than pure tallying. Tallying does play a role.

September 2022

August 2022

  • User:This, that and the other/broken interwiki links contains lists of entries that have defective links to sister projects. The August 1 edition has such defective links (to WP) sorted by language section of the entry page with the defective links to make it easier for those who would like to correct the errors in entries in their favorite languages.
  • The translation boxes now use CSS columns. This means that the number of columns in the translation box adapts to the width of the user's screen. There are also width options: you can specify {{trans-top|width=narrow}} for a box with many short translations, or {{trans-top|width=wide}} to hold exceptionally long translations. The {{trans-mid}} template no longer has a purpose and is now blank. This change has been temporarily reverted owing to a bug.
  • The number list module for Maranao (mrw) has been made.

July 2022

Following a vote, Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion has been updated to require a derogatory term to meet the usual attestation requirements within:

  • two weeks of the term being created, or if this period has passed,
  • two weeks of the term being nominated for deletion or verification.

Otherwise, it may be speedily deleted after that period. The template {{derogatory}} can be used to tag derogatory terms, or to generate boilerplate text when nominating such terms for deletion or verification.

June 2022

Number list modules have been made for Burmese (my), Chakma (ccp), Oriya (or), Rohingya (rhg), Sylheti (syl), Santali (sat), Friulian (fur), Shan (shn), Lü (khb), Khmer (km), Uyghur (ug) and Yakut (sah).

April 2022

  • The pronunciation template {{lo-pron}} has been created.

January 2022

  • enwikt-translations, a Toolforge website to search the contents of translation templates extracted from Translations sections in the latest XML dump, was created.

2021

September 2021

  • September 14: Version 14.0.0 of the Unicode Standard® has been released.
    • According to a document by Peter Constable, Version 15.0 of the Unicode Standard® is targeted for publication in September 2022.

August 2021

  • August 8: The URL format for specific sense IDs was changed; it used to be LanguageName-ID, but is now LanguageName:_ID. Existing links to IDs may be broken (but will still take to the correct page for now), and OrangeLinks as well as internal ID links might stop working temporarily, but should eventually start working again.

June 2021

2020

August 2020

April 2020

  • Completely new modularised methods are now in use for Bulgarian inflections with stress marks. Most of older templates will soon become obsolete.

March 2020

January 2020

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