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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/2024/28 are available.

*Recent changes*

- At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project. You can subscribe to the newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Newsletter:Chart_Project to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart. - The CampaignEvents https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents/Deployment_status . - Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_Suggested_edits#Add_an_image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia. - Thank you to all of the authors https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Contributor_retention_and_growth/Celebration who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Contributor_retention_and_growth, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

*Problems*

- A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367982.

*Future changes*

- The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers explaining how to do the update. Learn more https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers/2024-04_CTA .

*Tech News survey*

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