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Latest tech news
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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/2020/41> are
available.
Recent changes
- There is a new tool <https://consultation-stats.toolforge.org/> where
you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can
help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where
we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
- You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language
of a page. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254992>
Problems
- There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The
new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week
are late. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263177>
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged
in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-October/093922.html>
- [image: Advanced item] Many pages have JavaScript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> errors. You can read more
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/09/28/diving-into-wikipedias-ocean-of-errors/>
and
now see a list of user scripts with errors
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:Jdlrobson/User_scripts_with_client_errors>
.
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all
wikis from 8 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
- Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For
example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this
works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis
numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the
link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic
letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263266>
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour
on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC)
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1603807200>. It will probably be
shorter than an hour. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264364>
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