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*Feature news* - Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror> will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365311>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059> - Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Projects/Watchlist_Wikidata_Sitelinks_Tracking> . [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295356> *Project updates* - Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962> - Contributors of 11 Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538#10123348>, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style>) are not broken by Mooré <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moor%C3%A9> Wikipedia (language code mos). [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538> *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/2024/37> • 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>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)
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