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Latest *tech news
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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/2021/32> are
available.
*Problems*
- You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August.
This is planned at 05:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1628571650>.
This is because of work on the database. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287449>
*Changes later this week*
- The Wikimania Hackathon
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2021:Hackathon>
will
take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You
can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all
wikis from 12 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
- [image: Advanced item] The old CSS <div
class="visualClear"></div> will
not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages
should use <div
style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses
on
your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287962>.
*Future changes*
- The Wikipedia Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/The_Wikipedia_Library>
is
a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an
extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TheWikipediaLibrary>
which
has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use
notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will
ping more users later. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288070>
- [image: Advanced item] Vue.js
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Vue.js> will
be the JavaScript <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> framework
for MediaWiki in the future. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SOZREBYR36PUNFZXMIUBVAIOQI4N7PDU/>
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