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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. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
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have been added to the interwiki map in order to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org conveniently. [1]- Template:Tracked in mediawiki.org now supports Phabricator parameters. Other projects using this template are encouraged to update their versions. [2]
- New page Special:MediaStatistics to list what file types a wiki has. [3]
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Problems
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Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
- If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you now won't be able to save it, like for JSON pages. [4] [5]
- On Thursday, the editing tool for TemplateData will be made available on another 30 wikis. [6] [7]
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Future changes
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