Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/50>.
Below is the English version.

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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/2020/50> are
available.

Recent changes

   - You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
   Some wikis already had this function. [1]
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry>[2]
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist_expiry>

Changes later this week

   - Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in
   recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to
   turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences.
   Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki
   will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show
   edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014402.html>
   [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191831>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 10 December (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021>
between
   8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech
   team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> will work on.

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