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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/2020/46> are
available.
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Future changes*
- You can see reference previews
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>.
This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been
a beta feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features>. It will
move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to
use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be
the first ones. You can let them know
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)>
if
your wiki is interested. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2020-November/002373.html>
- From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a
short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version
of the internationalisation library
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode>.
They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can 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>
. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145>
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