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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/2022/40> are available. *Recent changes* - Kartographer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer> maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307695> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Geopoints_via_QID> - The Coolest Tool Award 2022 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award> is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>). - Talk pages on the mobile site <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Mobile> will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318302> [4] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Mobile> - The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens>. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212071> - The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#Deployment_plan_and_timeline> . *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/2022/40> • 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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