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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/2021/05> are
available.
*Problems*
- IPv6 addresses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IPv6> were written in
lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since
Special:Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> only accepted
uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272225>
*Changes later this week*
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual
Wikisource. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138332>
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two
items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid
a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special
character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be
shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70429>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96666>
- [image: Advanced item] Wikis use abuse filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax
like 1.2.3.4
- 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218074>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.29> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all
wikis from 4 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Minerva <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Minerva_Neue> is the skin
Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you
can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work
on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap.
This is because your community needs to update
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext> to work on
mobile. You can read more <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208827>.
[6]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Inline_styles_should_not_use_properties_that_impact_sizing_and_positioning>
[7]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Avoid_tables_for_anything_except_data>
- [image: Advanced item] Cloud VPS
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS> and Toolforge
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge> will change the
IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis>.
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