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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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