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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/2020/25 are available.
Recent changes
- [image: Advanced item] Toolforge https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge.org. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction.
Problems
- There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MonoBook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254485 - Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255179
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.37 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).
Future changes
- [image: Advanced item] Pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot is a Python library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Library_(computing) to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Python_(programming_language) after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242120. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot-announce/2020-June/000015.html - The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul . .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254797
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