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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/2023/38 are available.

*Recent changes*

- MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy/frontend that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T346467[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344079

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.27 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345263 - All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267921

*Future changes*

- The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans#Proposal and they need your input.

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