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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/2024/05 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/29/talk-page-permalinks-dont-lose-your-threads/ or on Mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Talk_pages_permalinking. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302011 - There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141490. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.16 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:QR_code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Mobile_and_apps/Add_ability_to_share_QR_code_for_a_page_in_any_Wikimedia_project from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Results. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329973 - Gadgets https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328497

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