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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/2020/29 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Users can thank https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Thanks others for their edits. Checkusers https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Sock_puppetry who harass others using thanks. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252226

*Problems*

- Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-June/093543.html [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2020-July/002327.html

*Changes later this week*

- Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256625 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.41 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- [image: Advanced item] Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093577.html [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2020/July [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vpbt50rwxgb2r6qn[8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093607.html

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//Johan Jönsson