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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/2020/21> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to
your email address. You need to know your email address or your username.
You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your
username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails
someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update#May_11,_2020>
[2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-May/094804.html>
*Problems*
- There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IOS_13> and Safari
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Safari_(web_browser)>. If you use an
iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site
you can report
them <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin_talk:Minerva_Neue>. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252223>
- Several wikis including Wikidata
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984> will be on read-only for a
few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200519T05>.
English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00
UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200521T05>.
This is for database maintenance. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251985>
*Changes later this week*
- The Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
Android can let users add
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_4.0_-_Tag_Commons_images_to_improve_search_(to_be_released_May_2020)>
depicts
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Depicts> on
Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_data/Computer-aided_tagging>.
This was removed to get more specific depicts. [6]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_4.0_-_Tag_Commons_images_to_improve_search_(to_be_released_May_2020)>
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Future changes*
- Graphs
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph> will
be rendered
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rendering_(computer_graphics)> in the
reader's browser. This will use Javascript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript>. Graphs will hopefully
work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users
who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236892>
- [image: Advanced item] Some CSS for the skins has been simplified.
This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction,
div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer.
They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets,
scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5>. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252467>
- [image: Advanced item] Some CSS for the Vector skin
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector> has been changed. This
affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions.
They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets,
scripts or user styles. See how
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252447>.
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