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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/2022/34 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Two problems with Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292613[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308560

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.26 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s4.dblist). - The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213778

*Future changes*

- The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Notifications#12_August_2022. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284489

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