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Tech News: 2024-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Updates for editors
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Updates for technical contributors
- A new
{{#timef:…}}
parser function has been added, to allow users to more easily format dates in different languages. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}
will show as "14 October 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}
could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef
(or#timefl
for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [1][2]
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