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*Updates for editors* - A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChartWizard/Data:Example.Pie.chart> for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart> more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist/W414>. - View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430692> *Updates for technical contributors* - Math formula <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Math> SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "Client side MathJax rendering (for browsers with limited MathML support)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/RESTBase/deprecation> and deprecating Mathoid <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T431372>. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271001> - Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use cldsort=timestamp URL argument in category view to sort the entries. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433768> - Gadgets <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets> and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395347> and ES2019 features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419142> in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix> . [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419142> - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.16> *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/2026/33> • 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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