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*Tech News*
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.
*Recent changes*
- AutoWikiBrowser <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4063270> is a tool to
make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JSON>.
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config.
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will
eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until
the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241196>
*Problems*
- InternetArchiveBot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/InternetArchiveBot>
helps
saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wayback_Machine> and links to them
there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is
removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it
moves pages from archive.is to
web.archive.org. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283432>
*Changes later this week*
- The tool to find, add and remove templates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting_templates>
will
be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates.
It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later
this year. [3]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_from_a_page_using_the_VisualEditor>
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284553>
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Future changes*
- Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Flagged_Revisions> or
pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for
readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged
Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be
removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.
[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285608>
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