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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/2023/03 are available.

*Problems*

- The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243569

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap). - Some changes to the appearance of talk pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Meta talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Meta: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion (beta feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures). [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325417 - On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/ProofreadPage/+/868841 - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Wikipedia:Vector_2022.

*Future changes*

- The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Sandbox.

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