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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/2023/36 are available.
*Recent changes*
- EditInSequence https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308098 - As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Generate_Audio_for_IPA and Audio links that play on click https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Multimedia_and_Commons/Audio_links_that_play_on_click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Phonos#Inline_audio_player_mode of Phonos https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336763 - There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:UserRights https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights and via the API. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272294 - One new wiki has been created: - a Wikipedia in Talysh https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34318 (w:tly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tly:) [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345166
*Problems*
- The LoginNotify extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:LoginNotify was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344785
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.25 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110. The communities can configure how this feature works locally https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308137[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308138
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