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Tech News: 2022-24
Latest *tech news
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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/2022/24> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- All wikis can now use Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Kartographer>
maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Pending_changes>.
[1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Project_descriptions>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307348>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.16>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on
all wikis from 16 June (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 14 June at 06:00
UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist>).
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300471>
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link>"
(Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans
Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia,
Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Aramaic Wikipedia, Egyptian
Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric
Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani
Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to
more Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. The
communities can configure how this feature works locally
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration>.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304548>
- The New Topic Tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#New_topic_tool>
will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis
soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion>.
[5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion>
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287804>
*Future meetings*
- The next open meeting with the Web team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/Talk_to_Web>
about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings
will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.
*Future changes*
- By the end of July, the Vector 2022
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements>
skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on
how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It
will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual
basis. Learn more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/2022-04_for_the_largest_wikis>
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