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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/2020/44 are available.

*Problems*

- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC) https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1603807200. It will probably be shorter than an hour. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264364 - Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265654

*Changes later this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

- Since the introduction of the interface administrators https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202989 - There was a problem with the Change Tags https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265312 - The Reply tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/replying will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266303

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