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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/2021/12> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- There is a Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS> for KaiOS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:KaiOS> phones. They don't have a touch
screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator
<https://wikimedia.github.io/wikipedia-kaios/sim.html> so you can see
what it looks like.
- The reply tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Replying>
and new discussion tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion>
are
now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
in
almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.
*Problems*
- You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276899> for a short period of time
on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210323T06>.
This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global
renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but
will probably be much faster.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.36> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all
wikis from 25 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
- Syntax highlighting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting> colours will
change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276346>. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme_of_Syntax_Highlighting>
*Future changes*
- Flagged revisions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs>
will
no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also
only have
one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and
they make the tool difficult to maintain. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185664>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277883>
- [image: Advanced item] Gadgets and user scripts can access variables
about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to
mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72470>
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