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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/2022/38 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization of links tables. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/U2U6TXIBABU3KDCVUOITIGI5OJ4COBSW/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ASarabadani_(WMF)/Database_for_devs_toolkit/Concepts/Normalization

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap). - In Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer/Icons will be updated to version maki 7.2 https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Hilfe:Extension:Kartographer/Icons. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302861 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Update_maki_icons

*Future changes*

- In a group discussion at Wikimania https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub/Software/Volunteer_developers_discussion_at_Wikimania_2022, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Content_Partnerships_Hub/Software/Volunteer_developers_discussion_at_Wikimania_2022 .

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