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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/2023/46 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Four new wikis have been created: - a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7598268 (w:zgh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zgh:) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350216 - a Wikipedia in Dagaare https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35159 ( w:dga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dga:) [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350218 - a Wikipedia in Toba Batak https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33017 ( w:bbc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bbc:) [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350320 - a Wikiquote in Banjar https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33151 (q:bjn: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/bjn:) [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350217

*Problems*

- Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350695 - Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350544

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews. You can opt out https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Opt-out_feature of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282999 is planned for November 22, 2023. - Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams https://stream.wikimedia.org/?doc#/streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams https://github.com/ChlodAlejandro/wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266798

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