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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/2020/15 are available.
*Problems*
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248141
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.27 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10817. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279
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//Johan Jönsson