Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/03%3E. Below is the English version.
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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/2021/03 are available.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.27 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- The Growth team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth plans to add features to get more visitors to edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_tasks/Experiment_analysis,_November_2020 to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-growthexperiments&language=&filter=&action=translate . - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210126T07. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271791 - MassMessage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270435.
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//Johan Jönsson