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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/2024/17 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Positive_reinforcement#Leveling_up_3 to try structured tasks. Structured tasks https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary#Newcomer_tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_a_link/Experiment_analysis,_December_2021. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348086 - You can nominate your favorite tools https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap). [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

*Future changes*

- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Loading_Vector_2010_scripts available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362701

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