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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/2020/10 are available.

*Problems*

- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246071

*Changes later this week*

- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update - When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update - On Special:WhatLinksHere https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103281 - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.22 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- The developers are working on a new interface https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_conflicts_on_talk_pages to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View . [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230231 - There is a vote https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abuse_filter_manager/vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abuse_filter_manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta. - wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246401. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246401. [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_Gateway/Mobile_homepage_formatting#MFSpecialCaseMainPage

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//Johan Jönsson