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Latest *tech news
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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/2023/17> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> will now show
year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current
and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023
Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Miscellaneous/Change_year_range_shown_in_date_selection_popup>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334316>
*Problems*
- Due to security issues with the Graph extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph>,
graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation
teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940>
- For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the
mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334797>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334799>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334794>
*Changes later this week*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is
planned for 14:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1682517653>. [6]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch>
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.6>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on
all wikis from 27 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the
Talk page project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability>.
The planned measurements are available
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Analysis>.
Your wiki may be invited to participate
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332946>. Please suggest improvements
to the measurement plan at the discussion page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_project/Usability>.
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for
comment and input
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024>
until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.
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