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Latest tech news
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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/2021/10> are
available.
Recent changes
- Section translation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/Section_translation>
now
works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of
articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis
with a smaller number of articles. You can test it
<https://sx.wmflabs.org/index.php/Main_Page> and leave feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation/Section_translation>
.
- Flagged revisions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs>
now
give admins the review right. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275293>
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now
show a preview of the article. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276185>
Problems
- Many graphs have JavaScript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> errors. Graph editors can
check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275833>
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.34> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all
wikis from 11 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
- The New Discussion
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion> tool
will soon be a new discussion tools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:DiscussionTools>
beta
feature on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new
discussions. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275257>
Future changes
- There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with
templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will
come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates
and those who create or maintain them. You can read more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates>.
- Reference Previews
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
will
become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a
setting with Page Previews <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews>.
If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can
keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206>[6]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
- New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer_11>. This is because
Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript
is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will
continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility/IE11>.
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