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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/09> are
available :
Deutsch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/de> • English •
Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/nl> •
español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/es> • français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/fr> • italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/it> • magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/hu> • polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/pl> • português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/pt-br> • suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/fi> • čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/cs> • русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/ru> • українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/uk> • עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/he> • العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/ar> • فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/fa> • বাংলা
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/bn> • 中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/09/zh> • 日本語
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*Recent changes*
- Wikis using the Growth team tools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary>
can
now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Mentorship/Integrating_mentorship>.
This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
- A new version of the VideoCutTool
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:VideoCutTool>
is
now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating
video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach
programs.
*Problems*
- There was a problem with the job queue
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Job_queue>.
This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were
delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275437>
- Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in
the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226797>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.33> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all
wikis from 4 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>