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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
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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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