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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/2022/21 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307341 - The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals will be updated over the next few months. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304629

*Problems*

- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287915 - Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308802

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Extension:Gadget/Policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308686

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