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Tech News: 2022-20
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Changes later this week
- Some wikis can soon use the
add a link
feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmal Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
.
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- The
Wikimedia Hackathon 2022
will take place online on May 20?22. It will be in English. There are also local
hackathon meetups
in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (
calendar
).
Future changes
- You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.
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