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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/2022/48 are available.
*Recent changes*
- A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319449
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.12 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s3.dblist) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s1.dblist). - Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3BGOKWJIZGL4TC4HJ22ICRU2SEPWGCR4/ [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311620[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186327 - On some wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P40224 that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs#Special:Contributions to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Pending_changes by a user. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321445
*Future changes*
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Wednesday (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Media_structure/FAQ. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314318
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