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Latest *tech news
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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/2020/14> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The beta version of the Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> for Android can now help
users add tags
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_4.0_-_Tag_Commons_images_to_improve_search>
on
Commons. These tags are called depicts
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts>. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239690>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.26> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all
wikis from 2 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The
current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old
player will be removed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418>
- There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks
the developers will present ideas on the project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates>. You
can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-March/093240.html>
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