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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/2021/49> are
available.
*Problems*
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last
week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all
wikis from 9 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of
newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It
is part of the Growth features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary>.
You can learn more about activating the mentor list
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to_configure_the_mentors%27_list>
on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Mentor_dashboard>
.
- [image: Advanced item] The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action
API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API> (which was created in 2008),
action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it
will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42786>
- [image: Advanced item] An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage,
which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or
bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143034>
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