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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/2024/12 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector/2022 main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353619 - IP info feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341395 - The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Obsolete:Toolforge/Grid[4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation [5] https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/ - Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326746
*Problems*
- RevisionSlider https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider/Developing_a_RTL-accessible_feature_in_MediaWiki_-_what_we%27ve_learned_while_creating_the_RevisionSlider languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352169
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.23 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). [8] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[9] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1710943200. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233[11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch
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