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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/2022/18 are available.

*Recent changes*

- On all remaining wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/dblists/group2.dblist (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VideoJS_Player has been a beta feature for over four years. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS. You can give feedback https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GBcHczQGLbQWTY. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese. - Most wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_template_dialog_improvements#Status_and_next_steps will receive an improved template dialog https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/VisualEditor_template_dialog_improvements in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296759 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306967 - If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme_of_Syntax_Highlighting#Color-blind_mode. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306867 - Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304363. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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