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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
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/03> are
available.
*Problems*
- The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain
diff=prev&oldid=[revision
ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a
problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by
a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243569>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.19>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will
be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- Some changes to the appearance of talk pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability>
have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will
be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Meta talk:. They will
continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Meta: pages
(e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion>
(beta feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>).
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325417>
- On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page:
namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page:
namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page.
[3]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/ProofreadPage/+/868841>
- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia
desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn
more <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Wikipedia:Vector_2022>.
*Future changes*
- The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023>,
which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools
and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can
start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Sandbox>.
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