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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/2020/40> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on
Special:AbuseLog <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog>.
This uses the interface of Special:Undelete
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete>. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261630>
- Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example
editors are added to autoconfirmed users
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Autoconfirmed_users>
when
they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
can
hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time.
They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long
this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=Wikimedia-Site-requests>.
It is currently five days. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231756>
*Problems*
- Last year <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/34> some
abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use
variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has
now been fixed. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230256>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.11> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on
all wikis from 1 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- You can't see the language links to other language versions from the
talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an
article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history
page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take
part in the discussion in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262472>.
- The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between
links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213778>.
- In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on
the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later
this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> will use push
notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences
<https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo> on
the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October
and on iOS in early 2021. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262936>
- You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This
could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't
want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on
mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki> and will come to more wikis
later. You can read more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry>
and see when it will come to other wikis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry/Release_Schedule>
.
- You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools
this year
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>.
You can also nominate them.
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