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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/2021/05 are available.

*Problems*

- IPv6 addresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IPv6 were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272225

*Changes later this week*

- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138332 - Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70429[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96666 - [image: Advanced item] Wikis use abuse filters https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218074 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.29 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Minerva https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Minerva_Neue is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208827. [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Inline_styles_should_not_use_properties_that_impact_sizing_and_positioning [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Avoid_tables_for_anything_except_data - [image: Advanced item] Cloud VPS https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS and Toolforge https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis.

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