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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/2020/27 are available.
Problems
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-June/093543.html - Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256444
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.39 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).
Future changes
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Modern https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Modern and Monobook https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255953.
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