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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/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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