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Latest *tech news
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*Recent changes*

   - The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Babel>
   extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows
   you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation,
   allowing you to categorize the new categories. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211665>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64714>[3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170654>[4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184941>[5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33074>

*Changes later this week*

   - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.3>
   of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on
   all wikis from 6 April (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
   - Some older Web browsers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser>
   will stop being able to use JavaScript
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> on Wikimedia wikis from
   this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have
   an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer
   version. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178356>
   - The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module
   could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in
   how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should
   now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in
the migration
   guide
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#jquery.hoverIntent>.
   [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311194>
   - Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages> will be
   re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate
   to all users, and links related to your own user account. [8]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333242>
   - You will be able to hide the Reply button
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Replying>
   in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word.
   There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply
   button in individual sections on a page. [9]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249293>[10]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295553>[11]
   
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools/+/738221>

*Future changes*

   - The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as
   graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that
   still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most
   existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and
   to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these
   graphs are available <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260542>.

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