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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/2020/24 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226697 - Self-closed tags https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Lint_errors/self-closed-tag now work as in the HTML5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25885956 since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423 - There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254534[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254295

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Advanced item] You can now edit MassMessage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage descriptions through the API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226929 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.36 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287

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//Johan Jönsson