The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/03>. Below is the English version.
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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/03> are available. *Recent changes* - When using WikiEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikiEditor> (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Warn_when_linking_to_disambiguation_pages#Jan_12,_2021:_Turning_on_the_changes_for_all_Wikis> about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item. - You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#subscribe> that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary>. You will receive notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications> when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion> and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263819> - When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text>. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297725> for some content types. *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>). *Events* - Community Wishlist Survey 2022 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022> continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ> . *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/03> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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