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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/2019/52 are available.
*Tech News*
- Because of the holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
*Recent changes*
- All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions ".
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
*Future changes*
- You can use setlang in the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL to change the user interface language https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Javascript is not working in your browser. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63115
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