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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/2021/29 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The tool to find, add and remove templates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Finding_and_inserting_templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Removing_a_template_from_a_page_using_the_VisualEditor [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284553 - Special:UnconnectedPages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97577

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.15 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- [image: Advanced item] How media is structured in the parser's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Parsing HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/L2UQJRHTFK5YG3IOZEC7JSLH2ZQNZRVU/. You can test it on Testwiki https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or Testwiki 2 https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. - [image: Advanced item] The parameters for how you obtain tokens https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280806#7215377.

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//Johan Jönsson