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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/2021/26> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Wikis with the Growth features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth> now can configure
Growth features directly on their wiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration>.
This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285423>
- Wikisources have a new OCR tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech/OCR_Improvements>.
If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can
add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css
page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css>. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285311>
*Problems*
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few
minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210629T1400>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281515>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281209>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all
wikis from 1 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number
headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and
few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing
them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:SKim_(WMF)/Performance_Dependent_User_Preferences>
.
- A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Replying>'s wikitext
source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other
users. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276609>[6]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Replying#Status_updates>
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