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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/2020/26 are available.
Problems
- There are some new tools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/growthexperiments.dblist. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255607 - [image: Advanced item] Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255718
Changes later this week
- The developers are working on a new interface https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_conflicts_on_talk_pages to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/mw:Help_talk:Paragraph-based_Edit_Conflict_Interface . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230231 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.38 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).
Future changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287
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//Johan Jönsson