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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/2020/25> are
available.
Recent changes
- [image: Advanced item] Toolforge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolforge> hosts several tools created
by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is
changing the domain from
tools.wmflabs.org to
toolforge.org. The routing
scheme is moving from
tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to
toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge.org>. Tools that use
OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction>.
Problems
- There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This
disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MonoBook> skin.
This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254485>
- Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short
period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255179>
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.37> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all
wikis from 18 June (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
Future changes
- [image: Advanced item] Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> is
a Python library <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Library_(computing)> to
automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Python_(programming_language)> after
the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19
will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for
help <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242120>. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot-announce/2020-June/000015.html>
- The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector> skin.
This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul
. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254797>
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