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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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