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Latest tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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available.
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.20> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all
wikis from 3 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
Future changes
- The iOS Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS> will show
readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier
see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will
first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing>. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241253>[2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Breaking_Down_the_Wall>
- [image: Advanced item] The Wiki Replicas
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_replicas> can be used for SQL
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:SQL> queries. You can use Quarry
<https://quarry.wmflabs.org/>, PAWS
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS> or other ways to do this. To
make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database
JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you
connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think
this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268498> or on Wikitech
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign>
. [3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign>
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