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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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