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Tech News: 2024-12
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
- Vector 2022 skin ပင်မမီနူးတွင်ရှိသော "ဘာသာစကားလင့်ခ်များသည် စာမျက်နှာ၏ထိပ်တွင်ရှိသည်" ဟူသော သတိပေးချက်ကို အသုံးပြုသူများသည် ဘာသာစကားပြောင်းသည့်နေရာအသစ်၏တည်နေရာအသစ်ကို သိရှိသွားသည့်အတွက် ယခုအခါ ဖယ်ရှားလိုက်ပါပြီ။ [၁]
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [၂]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [၃] [၄] [၅]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [၆]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [၇]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [၈] [၉]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [၁၀] [၁၁]
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