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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/2021/33 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287206

*Problems*

- There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288700 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288683[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288719

*Changes later this week*

- A revision tag https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tags will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Disambiguator. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tags#Deleting_a_tag_added_by_the_software. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287549 - Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions#Discussion_topic_for_"Quality_Signal_Sessions:_The_Tool_Maintainers_edition" on some specific questions. - In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications#mute, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288112 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).

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