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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/2020/47> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language
using a library
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode>.
For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted
correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading
to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the
existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on
how big the wiki is. You can read more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations/ICU_announcement>
. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145>
*Changes later this week*
- If you merged two pages in a namespace
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces> where
pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be
fixed. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93469>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all
wikis from 19 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- The Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021>
is
now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> will work on. You can
post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8
December to 21 December.
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