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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/2022/50 are available.

*Recent changes*

- An A/B test has begun https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Mobile at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Mobile will have access to the Reply tool and other features. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321961 - The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254045

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap). - The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability#Phase_1:_Topic_containers will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314714

*Events*

- The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1671210002! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel https://www.youtube.com/user/watchmediawiki and added to Commons afterwards.

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