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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/2023/13 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The AbuseFilter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309609 - Some Global AbuseFilter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_AbuseFilter#Locally_disabled_actions actions will no longer apply to local projects. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332521 - Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263821

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- You will be able to choose visual diffs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Diffs on all history pages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Page_history at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314588 - The legacy Mobile Content Service https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_Content_Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4MVQQTONJT7FJAXNVOFV3WWVVMCHRINE/

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