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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/2021/08 are available.

Recent changes

- The visual editor will now use MediaSearch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259896 - [image: Advanced item] The syntax highlighter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight now works with more languages: Futhark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Futhark_(programming_language), Graphviz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Graphviz/DOT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:DOT_(graph_description_language), CDDL and AMDGPU. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274741

Problems

- Editing a timeline https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:EasyTimeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274822

Changes later this week

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.32 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).

Future changes

- [image: Advanced item] There is a user group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Rust_developers_user_group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rust_(programming_language). You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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//Johan Jönsson