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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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