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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/2020/28 are available.

*Problems*

- The Score https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257066

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.40 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093571.html - The iOS Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/2020_survey. - Some rules for user signatures https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_requirements_for_user_signatures#Outcome will soon be enforced. Lint errors https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules https://signatures.toolforge.org/check. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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//Johan Jönsson