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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/2022/51 are available.

*Tech News*

- Because of the holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

*Recent changes*

- On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119072 - A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#addSubtitle. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316830 - One of our test wikis https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/ is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes (read more https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_On_Kubernetes). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290536

*Problems*

- Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2022-12-13_sessionstore

*Changes later this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week. - The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures turned on. [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#Status [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323537

*Future changes*

- Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Abuse filter management system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301063 - The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Private_Incident_Reporting_System/Timeline_and_Updates for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused. - Realtime Preview for Wikitext https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

*Events*

- You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Participate, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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