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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/2023/19 are available.

*Recent changes*

- When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Reading/Return_to_the_article_when_closing_the_MediaViewer. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236591 - The SyntaxHighlight https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29828 - Preloading text to new pages/sections https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Martin_Urbanec_(WMF)?action=edit§ion=new&preload=MediaWiki:July at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330337

*Problems*

- Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide https://vega.github.io/vega/docs/porting-guide/ provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Graph:PageViews&action=history. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940#8813922

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.8 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67750

*Future changes*

- During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation#What_should_it_look_like? about the format of the temporary usernames https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/Updates#What_will_temporary_usernames_look_like?. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332805 - There will be an A/B test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/2023-05_Zebra9_A/B_test. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333180[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335972 - jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336019 and read about how to find broken scripts https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Locating_broken_scripts. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336019

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