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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/2021/40 are available.
*Recent changes*
- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48643.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.3 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap). - [image: Advanced item] Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291718 - A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for *all production wikis*. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48643.
*Future changes*
- You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Notifications#September_2021_update - [image: Advanced item] The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/JavaScript#mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292011 - [image: Advanced item] The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the " mediawiki.cookie https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#mediawiki.cookie" module. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291760
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