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*Feature news*

- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365311[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059 - Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Projects/Watchlist_Wikidata_Sitelinks_Tracking . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295356

*Project updates*

- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962 - Contributors of 11 Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538#10123348, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style) are not broken by Mooré https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moor%C3%A9 Wikipedia (language code mos). [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538

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