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Latest *tech news
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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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