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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/2020/11 are available.

*Recent changes*

- There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240559[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/Articletopic[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search/articletopic

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.23 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/New_requirements_for_user_signatures. You can give feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:New_requirements_for_user_signatures . - The Wikipedia Android app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps will do push notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Push_Notifications_for_editors if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146032

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//Johan Jönsson