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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/2023/44 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_Wizard_Improvements, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347756). - The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Design_Systems_Team/Announcing_Codex_1.0 .

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.3 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). - Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations/ICU_announcement. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345561[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145 - Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336203

*Future changes*

- There is a proposed plan https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph/Plans#Roadmap for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Graph/Plans#c-PPelberg_(WMF)-20231020221600-Update:_20_October . - The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_configuration_2.0. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349757

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