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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [1]
- Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [2]
- The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [3]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).- Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template" field when editing templates. [4]
- Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [5]
Future changes
New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [6]
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.
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