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Tech News: 2024-05
Latest tech news from de Wikimedia technical community. Please make you flow oda users about dese changes. No be all changes go affect you. Translations be available.
Recent changes
- Dey start Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps go cam turn link. Dis link be permanent link go de comment. E dey allow users make dem find de comment dem dey look for, even if na dem move dis comment elsewhere. Dis go affect all wikis except for de English Wikipedia. You fi read more about dis change for Diff top anaa for Mediawiki.org top. [1]
- Der be sam improvements to de CAPTCHA so say e go make am harder for spam bots den scripts make dem bypass am. If you get feedback for dis change, please make you comment for de task top. Staff dey monitor metrics wey dey relate to de CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics lyk account creations den edit counts.
Changes later dis week
- De fresh version of MediaWiki go be for test wikis den MediaWiki.org top from 30 January. E go be for non-Wikipedia wikis den sam Wikipedias top from 31 January. E go be for all wikis top from 1 February (calendar). [2][3]
- For February 1, dem go add link go de "Tools" menu make e download QR code wey dey link go de page you dey view. Der sanso go be fresh Special:QrCode page make e create QR codes give any Wikimedia URL. Dis dey address de #19 most-voted wish from de 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [4]
- Gadgets wich dey job for sam skins insyd per samtyms dem use de
targets
option make e limit wer you fi use dem. Dis go stop dey job dis week. You fi use deskins
option instead. [5]
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