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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/2021/43 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Coolest Tool Award 2021 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Diff pages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Diff will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Copy_paste_diffs will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192526 - The version of the Liberation fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Liberation_fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253600

*Meetings*

- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey. News about the disambiguation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Warn_when_linking_to_disambiguation_pages and the real-time preview https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/Talk_to_Us .

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