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Tech News: 2024-42
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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{{#time:…}}parser function lets you show a date or time, but it expects a date format, while different languages use different formats, so a given format works only a given language (or a few languages). There is now a new function,{{#timef:…}}, to support different languages' date formats. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}will show as "7 October 2024", and{{#timef:now|date|ja}}will show as "2024年10月7日 (月)". Before, multi-lingual wikis like Commons needed special templates to translate dates, but now they can use this function which is much faster for the servers and easier for communities. [1][2] - …
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