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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/2022/40 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307695 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Geopoints_via_QID - The Coolest Tool Award 2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.4 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Talk pages on the mobile site https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Mobile will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318302 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Mobile - The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212071 - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#Deployment_plan_and_timeline .

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