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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/2021/13> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Some very old web browsers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser> don’t work
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility> well
with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be
supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277803>
- [image: Advanced item] IRC recent changes feeds
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#Raw_feeds> have been moved
to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to
irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users
should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams>. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224579>
*Problems*
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the
history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a
while. This is because of a job queue
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Job_queue> problem. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278350>
- Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because
of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed
because of problems like this. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278429>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274940>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.37> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all
wikis from 1 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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