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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/2021/06 are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260862 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.30 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).
Future changes
- When admins protect https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Protecting_and_unprotecting_pages pages the form will use the OOUI look https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization. Special:Import https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235424[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108792 - Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_Lists or recording email bounces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Email#Tracking_of_sent_mail. This is because of database maintenance. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273758 - [image: Advanced item] Last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/05 Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS and Toolforge https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [6] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis
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//Johan Jönsson