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Latest *tech news
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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/2019/49> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Mix'n'match
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mix%27n%27match> is
a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can
be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more
than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.8> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be
on all wikis from 5 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4
December at 16:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191204T16>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- There will be a new schema for XML dumps
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/>. Scripts and apps that use them will need
to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238972>
- The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content
namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it
returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-"
(dash).
In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are
file and category namespaces. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235957>
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