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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/2023/16 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer#Show_nearby_articles with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Nearby_articles#Implementation [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334079 - The Special:GlobalWatchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Notifications,_Watchlists_and_Talk_Pages/Button_to_mark_a_single_change_as_read_in_the_global_watch_list. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334246

*Problems*

- At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331138[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333042 - For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332650

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap).

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