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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/2022/16 are available.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.8 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s8.dblist). - Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Admins_and_patrollers/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page . - On selected wikis https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#test-wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Table_of_contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements project. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304169 - Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/09.

*Future changes*

- Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Pending_changes. [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Project_descriptions The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer/Getting_started [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/Maps [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer

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