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13 Jan 2020

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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/2020/03> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transport_Layer_Security>. This is
   because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade
   attacks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Downgrade_attack>. Since 9
   December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the
   wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can
   read the browser recommendations
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS/Browser_Recommendations>. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238038>
   - Special:LinkSearch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch> has
   been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on
   Special:SpecialPages
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages> to the "Lists of
   pages" section. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242146>

*Changes later this week*

   -  Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The
   standard protection levels are Allow only autoconfirmed users and Allow
   only administrators. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical
   name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users
   see. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230103>
   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.15> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be
   on all wikis from 16 January (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - Deepcat
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph/Deepcat> and
   Catgraph <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph> will
   stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you
   can now use the normal search function instead. [4]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-January/092936.html>
   - You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each
   other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the
   order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was
   shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an
   error message instead. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240858>

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Tech News (2020, week 3)