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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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