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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/2020/37 are available.

Changes later this week

- Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239277 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.8 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap). - [image: Advanced item] All MediaWiki API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247915

Future changes

- The Wikipedia Android app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Patrolling_conversation . - OTRS https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187984 - The Wikipedia Android app will send 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 need Google Play Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Google_Play_Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Android_KitKat users. [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android#Updates[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146032 - [image: Advanced item] Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation. - [image: Advanced item] Dropdown menus in the Vector skin https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262092.

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