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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/2020/17 are available.

*Tech News*

- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

*Recent changes*

- The small wiki toolkits https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-April/093296.html - Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248137

*Changes later this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

- Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer_8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248061 - The font in the diffs will change. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250393 - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.30 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson