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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/2021/08> are
available.
Recent changes
- The visual editor will now use MediaSearch
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search> to
find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when
you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better
images. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259896>
- [image: Advanced item] The syntax highlighter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight>
now
works with more languages: Futhark
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Futhark_(programming_language)>,
Graphviz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Graphviz>/DOT
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:DOT_(graph_description_language)>,
CDDL and AMDGPU. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274741>
Problems
- Editing a timeline
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:EasyTimeline>
might
have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been
fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274822>
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.32> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all
wikis from 25 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
Future changes
- [image: Advanced item] There is a user group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Rust_developers_user_group> for
developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust
programming language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rust_(programming_language)>. You can
join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.
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