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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/2023/17 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Miscellaneous/Change_year_range_shown_in_date_selection_popup. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334316
*Problems*
- Due to security issues with the Graph extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940 - For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334797[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334799[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334794
*Changes later this week*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1682517653. [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability. The planned measurements are available https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Analysis. Your wiki may be invited to participate https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332946. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Usability. - The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024 until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.
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