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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/02> are available. Recent changes - You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA>. This has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12729> - You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269761> - Admins can use the abuse filter tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter> to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week: - The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187686> - Oversighters <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Oversighters> can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog>. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260904> - When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle". - [image: Advanced item] There is a new tool to build new skins <https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/add>. You can also see <https://skins.wmflabs.org/?#/> existing skins <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Skins>. You can give feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Jdlrobson>. [5] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-December/094130.html> - [image: Advanced item] Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258108> - [image: Advanced item] Scribunto's <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto> file metadata <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#File_metadata> now includes length. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209679> - [image: Advanced item] CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and JavaScript <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> code pages now have link anchors to line numbers <https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/40e4795d4448b55a6d8c46ff414bcf78/w/index.php/MediaWiki:En.js#L-125>. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50>. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29531> - [image: Recurrent item] There was a new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.25> of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.25/Changelog> of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you. Changes later this week - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.26> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>). *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/2021/02> • 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>.* //Johan Jönsson --
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