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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/2021/26 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Wikis with the Growth features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285423 - Wikisources have a new OCR tool https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech/OCR_Improvements. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285311

*Problems*

- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210629T1400 . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281515[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281209

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.12 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:SKim_(WMF)/Performance_Dependent_User_Preferences . - A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Replying's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276609[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Replying#Status_updates

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//Johan Jönsson