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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/2024/02 are available.

*Recent changes*

- mediawiki2latex https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/de:Benutzer:Dirk_H%C3%BCnniger/wb2pdf/install#Using_Docker on your local machine. - The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309477

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

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