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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/2023/31 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Synchronizer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multilingual_Templates_and_Modules to develop global Lua modules and templates. - The tag filter on Special:NewPages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334337 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334338 - The Wikipedia ChatGPT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/Future_Audiences#Announcing_monthly_Future_Audiences_open_"office_hours" if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/Future_Audiences#FA2.2_Conversational_AI

*Problems*

- It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342442

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.20 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110. The communities can configure how this feature works locally https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308135

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