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*Tech News*
- Because of the holidays
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season> the next
issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
*Recent changes*
- The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia
article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual
editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason
and when it was added. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270107>
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
*Future changes*
- You can propose and discuss
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Ideas>
what
technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This
could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
- Some wikis use LanguageConverter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_systems/LanguageConverter> to
switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be
done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can
convert a piece of text on a page. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263082>
- Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog>. They can soon hide
multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal
edits. It will happen in early January. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260904>
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