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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/2024/17> are available. *Recent changes* - Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Positive_reinforcement#Leveling_up_3> to try structured tasks. Structured tasks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary#Newcomer_tasks> have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tasks/Add_a_link/Experiment_analysis,_December_2021>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348086> - You can nominate your favorite tools <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award> for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10. *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.2> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [2] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> *Future changes* - This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/vector.js> to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js>. There are more technical details <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Loading_Vector_2010_scripts> available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362701> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/17> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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