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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/2022/35 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The Realtime Preview https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:WikiEditor/Realtime_Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2 https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup2.dblist. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.
*Problems*
- In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315693
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.27 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist).
*Future changes*
- The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Private_Incident_Reporting_System to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Private_Incident_Reporting_System#Phase_1. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/MAna_(WMF) Madalina Ana https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MAna_(WMF).
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