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*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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