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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/2020/50> are
available.
Recent changes
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Some wikis already had this function. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry>[2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist_expiry>
Changes later this week
- Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in
recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to
turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences.
Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki
will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show
edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014402.html>
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191831>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all
wikis from 10 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
Future changes
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021>
between
8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech
team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> will work on.
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