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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/2020/14 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The beta version of the Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps for Android can now help users add tags https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_4.0_-_Tag_Commons_images_to_improve_search on Commons. These tags are called depicts https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239690

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.26 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418 - There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-March/093240.html

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//Johan Jönsson