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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/2021/42 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Toolhub https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LF4SSR4QRCKV6NPRFGUAQWUFQISVIPTS/ .
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- The developers of the Wikipedia Android app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android are working on communication in the app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Communication. You can now answer questions in survey https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Communication/UsertestingOctober2021 to help the development. - 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Proxy_server or a VPN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Apple_iCloud_Private_Relay on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities. - Wikimedia Enterprise https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise is a new API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org/message/B2AX6PWH5MBKB4L63NFZY3ADBQG7MSBA/. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/88994018553 on 22 October 15:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=10&year=2021 .
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