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Latest *tech news
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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/2020/15> are
available.
*Problems*
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on
desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248141>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.27> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all
wikis from 9 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Unicode>. Some characters that did not
have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of
these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on
Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10817>. The titles will
be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April
2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be
different from the one the script would rename it to. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279>
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