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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/2020/28> are
available.
*Problems*
- The Score
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score>
extension
has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will
work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257066>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.40> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect
language-independent information that can be easily read in different
languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read
more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia>.
[2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093571.html>
- The iOS Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS> developers are
thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help
them by answering the survey
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/2020_survey>.
- Some rules for user signatures
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_requirements_for_user_signatures#Outcome>
will
soon be enforced. Lint errors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors> and invalid HTML
will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not
be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions
will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new
rules <https://signatures.toolforge.org/check>. This is because the
signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
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