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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/03> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transport_Layer_Security>. This is
because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade
attacks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Downgrade_attack>. Since 9
December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the
wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can
read the browser recommendations
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS/Browser_Recommendations>. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238038>
- Special:LinkSearch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch> has
been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on
Special:SpecialPages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages> to the "Lists of
pages" section. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242146>
*Changes later this week*
- Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The
standard protection levels are Allow only autoconfirmed users and Allow
only administrators. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical
name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users
see. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230103>
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.15> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be
on all wikis from 16 January (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Deepcat
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph/Deepcat> and
Catgraph <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph> will
stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you
can now use the normal search function instead. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-January/092936.html>
- You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each
other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the
order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was
shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an
error message instead. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240858>
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