Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/05%3E. Below is the English version.

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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/2020/05 are available.

*Problems*

- Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242310[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243235 - Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231783

*Changes later this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

- There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232688.

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//Johan Jönsson