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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/2022/12 are available.
*New code release schedule for this week*
- There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Trainsperiment_week .
*Recent changes*
- You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Results. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215716 - The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295043
*Future changes*
- Interactive maps via Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs extension. Please tell us https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Kartographer-Workflows-EN/ which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation
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