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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/2020/12 are available.

*Recent changes*

- [image: Advanced item] There is a new API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:ChangeContentModel. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107174

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.24 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Solution:_Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139601[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244863 - You can see a proposed design https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Updates#12_March_2020 for replying to comments in an easier way.

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