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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/2023/20 are available.
*Problems*
- Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33057 are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide/Citations-Full#Automatic, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336298
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.9 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110. The communities can configure how this feature works locally https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308134
*Future changes*
- There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/Future_Audiences#FA2.2_Conversational_AI to the Wikimedia projects. - Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336018
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