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Tech News: 2024-12

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*Recent changes*

   - The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in
   the Vector 2022 skin
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector/2022> main
   menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the
   Language switcher. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353619>
   -  IP info feature
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature>
displays
   data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source
   for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
   [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341395>
   -  The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the
   final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Obsolete:Toolforge/Grid>[4]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation>
   [5]
   <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/>
   - Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a
   page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown>.
   [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326746>

*Problems*

   - RevisionSlider
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/RevisionSlider>
is
   an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in
   right-to-left
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider/Developing_a_RTL-accessible_feature_in_MediaWiki_-_what_we%27ve_learned_while_creating_the_RevisionSlider>
languages
   reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be
   fixed now. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352169>

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.23> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 21 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [8]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[9]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is
   planned at 14:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1710943200>. [10]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233>[11]
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch>

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