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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/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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