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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/2021/13 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Some very old web browsers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser don’t work https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277803 - [image: Advanced item] IRC recent changes feeds https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#Raw_feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224579

*Problems*

- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Job_queue problem. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278350 - Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278429[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274940

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.37 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson