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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/2022/03 are available.

*Recent changes*

- When using WikiEditor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Warn_when_linking_to_disambiguation_pages#Jan_12,_2021:_Turning_on_the_changes_for_all_Wikis about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item. - You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#subscribe that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary. You will receive notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263819 - When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297725 for some content types.

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap).

*Events*

- Community Wishlist Survey 2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ .

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