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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/2021/03> are
available.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.27> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all
wikis from 21 January (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- The Growth team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth> plans to add
features to get more visitors to edit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_tasks/Experiment_analysis,_November_2020>
to
more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-growthexperiments&language=&filter=&action=translate>
.
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short
time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210126T07>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271791>
- MassMessage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage> posts
could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because
MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more
difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be
timestamped you can let the developers know
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270435>.
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//Johan Jönsson