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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/2016/43 are available.

*Problems*

- The abuse filters https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148673

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.23 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap). - The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144640 - About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories/How_to_request . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146675 - Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories can also ask to use UCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Unicode_collation_algorithm to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Diacritic will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collation. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCategoryCollation#Language-specific_collations. You can test it https://ssl.icu-project.org/icu-bin/collation.html.

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//Johan Jönsson