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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Problems
There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (
calendar).
Future changes
MediaWiki will use a newer version of
Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen
on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
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There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (
calendar).
Future changes
Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
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The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can
leave feedback on this.
For pages using
syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
The
small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
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Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use
HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in
Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (
calendar).