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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/2021/27 are available.

*Tech News*

- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

*Recent changes*

- AutoWikiBrowser https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4063270 is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241196

*Problems*

- InternetArchiveBot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wayback_Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283432

*Changes later this week*

- The tool to find, add and remove templates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting_templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_from_a_page_using_the_VisualEditor [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284553 - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

- Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Flagged_Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285608

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