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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/2023/50 are available.

*Recent changes*

- On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_Wizard_Improvements. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352707[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352709

*Problems*

- There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352352[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352349

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.9 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). [5] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[6] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

*Future changes*

- The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/796964 is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:December_2023_Developer_Satisfaction_Survey .

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