Technical Community Newsletter/2023/October

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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. Got something to highlight in the next quarterly newsletter? Add your suggestion to the talk page.

Highlights
* Wikimania Conference 2023

The Wikimania Conference, which took place in Singapore from August 16th to August 19th, 2023, featured an engaging hackathon in which members of the technical community worked on several intresting projects. Here’s a quick look at some of the showcased projects:


 * User Script to enable 3D Models category in Commons main section
 * What is Phorge Phorging
 * ToolForge Health Dashboard Tool (ToolWatch)
 * Wikipedia 1.0 toolset new selection tool
 * QID on Navigation Popups
 * Special:Investigate was broken on all wikis?!
 * OATHAuth multiple devices DB work
 * Add edit count and user creation date to Special:Contributions
 * Twitter to Commons
 * SPARQL Challenge

What's new

 * Wikimedia Foundation has launched a Mastodon instance. You can follow us at: wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation If you have any suggestions and or questions about this instance feel free to share via the Talk Page

Recent blog posts
Read on diff.wikimedia.org/category/technology about:


 * Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners


 * Wikifunctions is starting up - By Denny Vrandečić


 * Improving image search on Wikimedia Commons - By Cormac Parle


 * Exploring paths for the future of free knowledge: New Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin, leveraging rich media social apps, and other experiments - By Maryana Pinchuk

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