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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/2022/42> are available. *Recent changes* - The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306883> will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320510>. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Search_Improvements> - A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320406>. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.6> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>). - Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadJsonData> to load data from JSON pages. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217500> - Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Strict_library> to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16748603>" on most wikis. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209310> *Future changes* - The Beta Feature <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> for DiscussionTools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools> will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320683> *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/2022/42> • 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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