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Tech News: 2024-27
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 changes
- [NOTE: Bumped from last week, to attempt to get more useful details included.] -- If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [1]
- Community Configuration is progressively deployed to all Wikipedias. On
Special:CommunityConfiguration
, your community can configure certain features. For the moment, only the Growth features are available, but other configurations will soon be possible; they will be announced in Tech News. [2] - …
Problems
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 July. It will be on all wikis from 4 July (calendar). [3][4]
Future changes
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