TULIPS/2025-04-17

Welcome to our 30th TULIPS (Thursday Updates & Logs Improving Platform Software)! You can read the previous one if you haven't yet.

These posts will be made whenever we have enough development updates to make a post, usually on Thursdays.

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Improvements

• When syntax highlighting is enabled in the wikitext editor, table HTML attributes are now displayed with a separate color.
• Added Chinese translation to the browser check page.
• Global groups are no longer displayed on Special:Statistics (which does not account for global group memberships).
• We've done some background work to improve service stability further.
• Redirect pages are now cached server-side.
• Fixed some text being unreadable in MultimediaViewer when browsing wikis in dark theme.
• The "Visual Edit" and "Visual Edit: Switched" edit tags no longer link to Project:VisualEditor out of the box.

Styling improvements

• TemplateStyles now supports the following @media queries: prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors.
• TemplateStyles now supports CSS Box Sizing Level 4:
  • New supported properties: aspect-ratio, contain-intrinsic-size, contain-intrinsic-width, contain-intrinsic-height, contain-intrinsic-block-size, contain-intrinsic-inline-size,, and min-intrinsic-size.
  • New supported size values: stretch, fit-content, and contain.
• Added support for url(filepath://) to wiki CSS. This is a simplified way of referencing images in CSS, and allows for more efficient caching.

  :root {
      --wiki-body-background-color: #F6F6F6;
      --wiki-body-background-image: url(filepath://Site-background.jpg); /*[[File:Site-background.jpg]]*/
  }
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug which could cause VisualEditor's link insertion suggestions to become unresponsive.
• On wikis in the BigTable test group, fixed BigTable being unable to fully activate when previewing an edit.
• Fixed Special:Search displaying empty namespaces (without any pages) as IDs if those namespaces are marked as searched-by-default.

Upcoming changes

These changes are in progress but we weren't able to deploy them prior to publishing TULIPS today.

• As an experiment, Special:CargoQuery will be re-enabled for anonymous users with limited user interface. This will be reverted if it causes a significant amount of bad traffic.

Changes we are testing

• Users with unsaved edits that were caught by Special:EditRecovery will see a warning in the netbar; this experiment has been rolled out to TITANs and will be released to all users at a later date.

Known issues

• Due to a DOM change in Google search results, the wiki.gg redirect extension may not be redirecting your search results (though URLs should still get redirected). We will patch this, but we also recommend installing Indie Wiki Buddy (not affiliated with us or with indie.io in any way) in the meantime; that extension will redirect independent wikis as well as most wiki.gg forks.

WE DID THIS

Nothing submitted to WE DID THIS this week! You can submit cool things you did in the #we-did-this channel in our public Discord!