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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Recent changes*
- Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced
mobile mode
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions>.
They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means
that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for
users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could
decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need
to be fixed to look good on mobile. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284763>
- Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource
<https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page>. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275958>
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Future changes*
- In the future we can't show the IP
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation>
of
unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and
norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to
those who need to see it
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation#Updates>
could
work.
- German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be
read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and
5:30 UTC. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284530>
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June.
More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be
posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281515>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281209>
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