Tech News (2021, week 50) - Wikitech-ambassadors

14 Dec 2021

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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/2021/50> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - There are now default short aliases

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespace#Other_namespace_aliases>
   for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
   [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]]
   namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have
   easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be
   requested via the usual process

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes>.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293839>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.13> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 16 December (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).

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