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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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Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>