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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/2022/33> are available. *Recent changes* - The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Editing_Restriction_Study/Farsi_Wikipedia> is now available. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.25> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s1.dblist>) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s8.dblist>). - The Realtime Preview <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:WikiEditor/Realtime_Preview> will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1 <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup1.dblist>. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext> . *Future changes* - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools> will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Prototype>. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#4_August_2022> [2] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Usability#Phase_1:_Topic_containers> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312672> *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/2022/33> • 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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