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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/2020/42> are
available.
*Problems*
- Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last
week's updates are also late. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263177>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178>[3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-October/093944.html>
*Changes later this week*
- Live previews
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Live_preview>
didn't
show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This
has now been fixed. You can also test CSS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and JavaScript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> pages even if you have the
live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102286>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186390>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.13> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all
wikis from 15 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- [image: Advanced item] A new stable version of Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> is
coming soon. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2020-October/010056.html>
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