Readers/Structured Data/Release Timeline

This page attempts to track notable changes and releases by the Structured Data team. We began tracking this in January 2022 and most older data is missing. Feel free to jump in and add anything missing!

🎂 is used to mark releases the team feels are worth celebrating and usually mark the end of a long line of work.

Dates should reflect a date the change went into production and generally correspond with that week's deployment train.

Thanks to the Web team for the inspiration for this page (see /Reading/Web/Release_timeline).

April
5th
 * Added expanded search snippet in Search Preview on desktop (T316397).
 * Added article intro in Search Preview when wikidata description does not exist (T316395).
 * Fixed issue with search preview card width (T329691).
 * Fixed bug "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'offsetTop')" (T330860).
 * Improvements to Search Preview and search layout widths on tablets (T323843).

March
22nd
 * Fixed bug where the Special:Search preview was overlapping elements on a page (T326383).

 15th 
 * Added interwiki links to the Search Preview panel on mobile (T327540).

 8th 
 * Implemented accessibility improvements for Search Preview (T327648).


 * Enhanced the way the Search Preview links searchResult to Search Preview article (T317639).


 * Fixed bug where on mobile Search Preview, the last card should not hug the edge of the screen (T328138).


 * Fixed bug where mobile Search Preview was not shown for articles with existing desktop Search Preview (T328716).

 1st 
 * Added interwiki link widget to the Search Preview panel on desktop (T307085).

February
 8th 
 * Fixed issues with displaying article card on mobile Search Preview (T328095).
 * Fixed bug where portrait images are shown as landscape image in the Commons widget on mobile Search Peview (T326344).

 1st 
 * 🎂 Released Search Preview on mobile on ID, RU, and PT Wikipedias (T326957).
 * Fixed bug where results without body broke the SearchVue extension (T327873).
 * Fixed bug on Special:Search - Console displays Uncaught TypeError: this.handleEventTimeout is not a function (T327731).
 * Added ability to access and interact with the Search Preview with the keyboard only (T326641).
 * Fixed bug where desktop preview hover area did not include the arrow area (T326580).

January
4th
 * 🎂 Released Search Preview on desktop on ID, RU, and PT Wikipedias (T310367).

December
14th
 * Fixed bug where cross-wiki search overlaps with footer when local search results are few (T324428).
 * Upgraded Image Suggestions code to Spark 3 (T323108).

November
23rd
 * Added image suggestions data pipeline monitoring (T312235).
 * Fixed bug where the image suggestions algorithm was suggesting disambiguation pages (T316794).

16th (T320656).
 * Allow users to go to the article by clicking on thumbnails in special:search page. (T321361).
 * Fixed bug where list articles were appearing in articles with image suggestions
 * Fixed bug where some pages' search index docs indicate they have an image suggestion when they do not (T314164).
 * Prevented non-free images from being displayed as thumbnails on the wikipedias (T320661).

1st
 * 🎂 Started sending image suggestions notifications to experienced users in 4 more wikis (FI, HU, CA, NO) (T300064).
 * The threshold for experienced users was decreased from 500 to 300 edits for image suggestions notifications on PT wikipedia (T321715).
 * Fixed issue with search result margin on mobile view (T321563).
 * Fixed bug on mobile search where non-media files thumbnails were displayed incorrectly (T321362).
 * Fixed bug in Special:Search: "429 Too Many Requests" when number of returned search results set to more than 50 (T321006).
 * Added list of categories to MachineVision (T320526).

October
19th
 * Added preference to allow users to turn off thumbnails in Special:Search (T320337).
 * Fixed bug with small images and non-image thumbnails in Special:Search (T319230).

10th
 * Outstanding updates to styling of messages that show up above search results (T315323).
 * Reduce the max width for the basic namespace filter on Special:Search (T319392).
 * Fixed bug where thumbnails on SpecialSearch may fail to load (T320406).
 * Thumbnails are shown on Special:Search only on Wikipedias (T320510).

6th
 * 🎂 Searchers see thumbnails next to search results on the special:search page (T306883).
 * Fixed bug on MediaSearch on Commons on mobile where image in QuickView scrolls up (T314831).

September
28th
 * Added Extension:SearchVue to translatewiki.net (T310246).

21st
 * Additional appearance update of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search (T315324).
 * Additional improvements to the results layout on special:search page (T315322).
 * Fixed bug where there was a height flicker when switching tabs (T314732).

14th
 * Fixed bug where MachineVision\Repository::getUnreviewedImageCountForUser had a suboptimal query loading more than 10,000 rows (T302184).
 * Updated the "results from other language wiki" section to match the new layout and styling (T309745).

August
31st
 * Fixed bug where focus was on search input when displaying search results in Special:Search (T215117).

15th
 * Improved the results layout on Special:Search (T307463).
 * Updated appearance of "Sister project widgets" on Special:Search (T307468).
 * Updated styling of messages that show up when no results are found on Special:Search (T308706).
 * Updated styling of messages that show up above search results on Special:Search (T307464).

4th
 * Fixed bug where some articles containing images were counting as "unillustrated" (T312226).

July
20th
 * 🎂 Sent first batch of image suggestions notifications to experienced users on on pt, ru, and id wikis (T292147).
 * Updated MediaSearch to make use of new weighted_tags fields (T313118).
 * Added 'custommatch' params to commons config for searching media files using wikidata ids (T298684).

6th
 * Fixed Media Search error 'ownKeys' on proxy: trap result did not include 'length' (T310401).


 * Fixed error FormatMetadata: PHP Notice: Array to string conversion (T297403).

June
22nd
 * 🎂 Deployed ImageSuggestions extension on pt, ru, and id wikis (T302711).


 * Fixed bug where "Load more" and "No more results found" were displayed at the top of MediaSearch search results (T310984).

15th
 * Fixed bug where the search result box in MediaSearch was s not the same height across media types (T295557).


 * Fixed bug "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'toUpperCase')" (T308507).

May
25th


 * Fixed bug where filter menus in MediaSearch wouldn't close (T308149).


 * Fixed bug where history state manipulation was triggering errors in the frontend (T307780).


 * Fixed bug in Upload Wizard where when going Back to Upload step, an image is not displayed (T296117).

18th


 * Fixed bug where structured data not visible in the structured data tab on a lot of files (T301048).

April
20th
 * Updated MediaSearch on Commons to Vue 3 Mode (T305133).

13th


 * Allowed users to remove coordinate location from Structured Data without putting the coordinates in the edit summary (T298700).
 * Added Extension:ImageSuggestions to translatewiki.net (T302415).

March
30th


 * Fixed uses of (error|success|warning|message)box in Upload Wizard (T302781).


 * Fixed uses of (error|success|warning|message)box in MachineVision (T302782).

23rd


 * Updated jQuery.lazyload library from UploadWizard from using deprecated navigator.appVersion (T296840).


 * Fixed bug in Special:MediaSearch where several drop-down filters were displayed at the same time (T301439).


 * Fixed bug where MediaSearch dropdowns were not accessible in VoiceOver (T283818).


 * Handled deprecation of Serializable interface in WikibaseMediaInfo (T301223).

9th


 * Fixed bug related to literal HTML appearing on the Commons Structured Data tab (T300830).

2nd


 * Fixed bug related to Logstash alert (T297403).

February
14th


 * 🎂 Enabled MediaSearch synonyms profile by default (T301559). See the announcement on Commons for more information.

9th


 * Fixed bug related to the default state on MediaSearch filters (T295607).

January
26th


 * Fixed bug related to the captions UI on Commons file pages (T227264).

19th


 * Fixed bug related to escaped characters in captions (T293760).
 * Enabled custom namespaces and tab order configurations for MediaSearch (T284209) and (T284208).

11th


 * 🎂 Released References for Structured Data on Commons (T230315).
 * Fixed bug related to the default filter select state in MediaSearch (T295607).

5th


 * Fixed bug related to 0x0 size media in MediaSearch (T295630).