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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/2020/50 are available.

Recent changes

- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist_expiry

Changes later this week

- Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014402.html [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191831 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).

Future changes

- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021 between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech will work on.

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//Johan Jönsson