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Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/16> are available. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist>) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s8.dblist>). - Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page> when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Admins_and_patrollers/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page> . - On selected wikis <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#test-wikis>, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Table_of_contents>. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements> project. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304169> - Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/09>. *Future changes* - Kartographer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Kartographer> will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs>. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Pending_changes>. [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Project_descriptions> The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [3] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer/Getting_started> [4] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/Maps> [5] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer> *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/2022/16> • 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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