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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/2021/04> are
available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short
time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210126T07>.
You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> for a short time on 28
January at 09:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210128T09>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271791>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272388>
Changes later this week
- Bracket matching
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Bracket_Matching>
will
be added to the CodeMirror
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror>
syntax
highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan
Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270238>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.28> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all
wikis from 28 January (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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