Hi,

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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/2021/08> are
available.

Recent changes

   - The visual editor will now use MediaSearch
   <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search> to
   find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when
   you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better
   images. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259896>
   - [image: Advanced item] The syntax highlighter
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight>
now
   works with more languages: Futhark
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Futhark_(programming_language)>,
   Graphviz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Graphviz>/DOT
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:DOT_(graph_description_language)>,
   CDDL and AMDGPU. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274741>

Problems

   - Editing a timeline
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:EasyTimeline>
might
   have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been
   fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274822>

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.32> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 25 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - [image: Advanced item] There is a user group
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Rust_developers_user_group> for
   developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust
   programming language
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rust_(programming_language)>. You can
   join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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