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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/2023/15 are available.

*Recent changes*

- In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Editing/Editable_gallery_captions_in_Visual_Editor. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190224 - You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Anti-harassment/Notifications_for_user_page_edits. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3876

*Problems*

- There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-centralnotice-banners specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331671

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.4 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110. The communities can configure how this feature works locally https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304551[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308133

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