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Latest tech news from de Wikimedia technical community. Please make you tell oda users about dese changes. Not all changes go affect you. Translations be available.

Recent changes

• Pages wey dey use de JSON contentmodel go now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. Dis go significantly reduce de page size. [1]
• Gadgets den personal user scripts now nu fi use JavaScript syntax introduce insyd ES6 (dem sanso know as "ES2015") den ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki dey validate de source code make e protect oda site functionality from syntax errors, den make e ensure scripts be valid for all supported browsers insyd. Previously, na Gadgets fi use de requiresES6 option. Dem no longer dey hia dis option wey dem go komot am for de future insyd. [2]
• Bot passwords den owner-only OAuth consumers dem fi now restrict am make e allow make dem dey edit specific pages per. [3]
• You fi now thank edits wey bots make. [4]
• Update for de status of de Community Wishlist Survey top for 2024 dem publish! Please make you read den give your feedback.

Changes later dis week

• De fresh version of MediaWiki go be for test wikis den MediaWiki.org top from 16 January. E go be for non-Wikipedia wikis den sam Wikipedias top from 17 January. E go be for all wikis top from 18 January (calendar). [5][6]
• Dey start for January 17, e no go be possible make you login go Wikimedia wikis from sam specific old versions of de Chrome browser (versions 51–66, dem release between 2016–2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, anaa Safari for Mac OS 10.14 top, fi hia make dem login go each wiki separately. [7]
• Na dem deprecate den replace jquery.cookie module plus de mediawiki.cookie module last year. Dem now run script make e replace any uses wey dey remain, wey dis week demjquery.cookie go komot de temporary alias. [8]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland dey job make dem make reusing references easier. Dem dey look for people wey go be interested make dem participate for individual video calls for user research insyd January den February insyd.

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