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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/2020/52 are available.
*Tech News*
- Because of the holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
*Recent changes*
- The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270107
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
*Future changes*
- You can propose and discuss https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Ideas what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things. - Some wikis use LanguageConverter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_systems/LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263082 - Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260904
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//Johan Jönsson