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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/2020/51 are available.
Recent changes
- There is a Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS for KaiOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/growing-wikipedias-reach-with-an-app-for-kaios-feature-phones/
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.22 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).
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//Johan Jönsson