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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/2020/04> are
available.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.16> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be
on all wikis from 23 January (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- There is a new suggestion
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/Improving_tools>
for
what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to
give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work
go faster. You can give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/Improving_tools>
.
- Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> is
a Python library <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Library_(computing)> to
automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Python_(programming_language)>. Use
the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The
Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get
help <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242120> to do so. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2020-January/009976.html>
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The
timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446> if this affects you. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-January/092939.html>
- You can read about
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2020/January>
coming
technical events and mentoring interns.
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