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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

The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [1]
From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
  - a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [2]
  - a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [3]
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
  - Wikifunctions (f:) [4]
  - a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [5]
  - a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [6]
  - a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [7]
  - a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [8]
  - a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [9]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [10]

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