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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/2024/17> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Positive_reinforcement#Leveling_up_3>
to try structured tasks. Structured tasks
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary#Newcomer_tasks>
have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_a_link/Experiment_analysis,_December_2021>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348086>
- You can nominate your favorite tools
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>
for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open
until May 10.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.2>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on
all wikis from 25 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
*Future changes*
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022
skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For
user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents
of Special:MyPage/vector.js
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/vector.js> to
Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js>. There
are more technical details
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Loading_Vector_2010_scripts>
available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of
technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your
community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362701>
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