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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/2023/12> are
available.
*Problems*
- Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails.
This was due to incorrectly cached images. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331820>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.1>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on
all wikis from 23 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth> page will appear
on Special:Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> — some user
scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature
request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Admins_and_patrollers/Add_link_to_CentralAuth_on_Special:Contributions>
.
- The Special:AbuseFilter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> edit window will
be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80
in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Anti-harassment/Make_the_AbuseFilter_edit_window_resizable_and_larger_by_default>
.
- There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking
a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will
work both via Special:Unblock
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Unblock> and via the API. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257662>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams.
During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future
roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC)
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1679677204>. See details and how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Office_Hours>
.
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