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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/2024/18 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Analysis, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341491 - Seven new wikis have been created: - a Wikipedia in Betawi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33014 (w:bew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bew:) [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357866 - a Wikipedia in Kusaal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35708 (w:kus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kus:) [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359757 - a Wikipedia in Igala https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35513 (w:igl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/igl:) [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361644 - a Wiktionary in Karakalpak https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33541 ( wikt:kaa: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaa:) [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362135 - a Wikisource in Burmese https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9228 (s:my: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/my:) [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361085 - a Wikisource in Malay https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9237 (s:ms: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ms:) [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363039 - a Wikisource in Georgian https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8108 ( s:ka: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ka:) [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363085 - You can now watch message groups/projects https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support#Early_access:_Watch_Message_Groups_on_Translatewiki.net on Translatewiki.net https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348501 - Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileOptions. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis https://night-mode-checker.wmcloud.org/. See more detailed guidelines https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading/Updates/2024-04 .
*Problems*
- Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362531
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.3 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap). [11] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[12] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
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