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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/2022/20 are available.

*Changes later this week*

- Some wikis can soon use the add a link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian 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. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304542 - The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on. - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.12 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/12/mediawiki-1-38-brings-support-for-editing-translatable-pages-with-the-visual-editor/

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