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m:Tech/News/Latest Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1] You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10. Changes later this week The new version 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). [2][3] 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 to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details 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] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Nomination for deletion of Template:Periodic table (dividing line between metals and nonmetals)

Template:Periodic table (dividing line between metals and nonmetals) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:List of metallic elements

Template:List of metallic elements has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Periodic table (metalloid border)

Template:Periodic table (metalloid border) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Script/Hebrew/testcases/doc

Template:Script/Hebrew/testcases/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:29, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I can't believe you got banned

It's sad to see you get banned despite your extensive behind-the-scenes work with templates. The ANI thread didn't take into account your good contributions and whether you were a net positive. ANI is like a witch hunt. 123957a (talk) 05:17, 16 January 2024 (UTC)