Tech News: 2024-16 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/2024/16> are available.
*Problems* - Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs>, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361918>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361940> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [3] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[4] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar> - Default category sort keys <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#DEFAULTSORT> will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Cite>. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40435> - A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter>. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269769> *Future changes* - Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts> . Learn more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts/For_developers/2024-04_CTA> . - Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry <https://quarry.wmcloud.org/>). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361996> *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/2024/16> • 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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