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Latest tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/43> are
available.
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.14> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all
wikis from 22 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour
on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC)
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1603807200>. It will probably be
shorter than an hour. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264364>
- [image: Advanced item] In the AbuseFilter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
extension,
the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not
remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of
rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters'
behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> to
locate its usage. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263024>
- Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav.
This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with
either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at
the top of phab:T265373 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265373>.
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