[Wikitech-ambassadors] Heads-up: Diff colour

[Johan Jönsson]

Hey everyone,

Something which didn't make it into this week's Tech News:

As you might know, the Wikimedia Foundation Web team is working on a night
mode <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading>,
which is currently available on mobile but continues to be developed. As
part of the accessability work around this, the developers made some slight
changes to the colour in the diff text, which will be visible on the wikis
this week but didn't make it into Tech News until next week. You can read
more in phab:T361717 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361717>.
Best,


*Johan Jönsson*Manager, Movement Communications
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News 2023, week 51

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Opinions about talk pages?

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Hey folks,

If you, are any group in your community, has opinion on iOS talk pages,
you're very welcome to take this survey:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GBcHczQGLbQWTY

Feel free to spread the word in your communities, if communication with app
editors has been something people have had opinions on, or if you care
about talk pages in general.
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 5)

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The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/05>.
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
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   weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget
   definition (documentation
   

   ). [1] 

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   -  The new version 
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February.
   It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It
   will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar
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*Future changes*

   - A change that was announced
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  - The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for
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  right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can
  comment in Phabricator  if
  you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on
  translatewiki (direct links are available
  ) or by administrators on
  your wiki.

*Events*

   - You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey
   

between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community
   Tech team
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 27)

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Hi,

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   - The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

*Recent changes*

   - AutoWikiBrowser  is a tool to
   make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON
   .
   Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to
   Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and
   Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config.
   Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to
   Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will
   eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until
   the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [1]
   

*Problems*

   - InternetArchiveBot
   
helps
   saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine
    and links to them
   there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is
   removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it
   moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - The tool to find, add and remove templates
   

will
   be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates.
   It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later
   this year. [3]
   

   [4] 
   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

   - Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions
    or
   pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for
   readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged
   Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be
   removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.
   [5] 

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 24)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
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Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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*Recent changes*

   - Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced
   mobile mode
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions>.
   They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means
   that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for
   users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could
   decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need
   to be fixed to look good on mobile. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284763>
   - Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource
   <https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page>. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275958>

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

   - In the future we can't show the IP
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation>
of
   unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and
   norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to
   those who need to see it
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation#Updates>
could
   work.
   - German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be
   read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and
   5:30 UTC. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284530>
   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June.
   More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be
   posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281515>[5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281209>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 22)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/22>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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   - There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories
   and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283206>

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   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 10)

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ation-Popups gadget you can
   keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206>[6]
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
   - New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer_11>. This is because
   Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript
   is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will
   continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 08)

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Hi,

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You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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Recent changes

   - The visual editor will now use MediaSearch
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   find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when
   you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better
   images. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259896>
   - [image: Advanced item] The syntax highlighter
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight>
now
   works with more languages: Futhark
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Futhark_(programming_language)>,
   Graphviz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Graphviz>/DOT
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:DOT_(graph_description_language)>,
   CDDL and AMDGPU. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274741>

Problems

   - Editing a timeline
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:EasyTimeline>
might
   have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been
   fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274822>

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.32> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 25 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

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   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Rust_developers_user_group> for
   developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust
   programming language
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   join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 07)

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/07/sr> • ‎українська
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/07/zh> • ‎日本語
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Problems

   - There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the
   updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version.
   Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-February/094255.html>
   [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-February/094271.html>
   - Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC
   on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>,
   new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading
   lists <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_Lists> or
   recording email bounces
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Email#Tracking_of_sent_mail>. This is
   because of database maintenance. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273758>

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.31> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 18 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

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 change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later
   instead. [6]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 04)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/04>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/04/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/04/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/04/uk> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/04/ar> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/04/zh> • ‎日本語
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/04> are
available.

Problems

   - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short
   time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210126T07>.
   You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> for a short time on 28
   January at 09:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210128T09>.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271791>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272388>

Changes later this week

   - Bracket matching
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Bracket_Matching>
will
   be added to the CodeMirror
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror>
syntax
   highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan
   Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January.
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270238>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.28> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all
   wikis from 28 January (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).


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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 03)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/03>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/nl> • ‎Türkçe
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/it> • ‎magyar
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Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/pt-br> • ‎suomi
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/he> • ‎العربية
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/03/ja>

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/03> are
available.

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.27> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all
   wikis from 21 January (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - The Growth team
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth> plans to add
   features to get more visitors to edit
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_tasks/Experiment_analysis,_November_2020>
to
   more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface
   
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-growthexperiments&language=&filter=&action=translate>
   .
   - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short
   time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210126T07>.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271791>
   - MassMessage
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage> posts
   could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because
   MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more
   difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be
   timestamped you can let the developers know
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270435>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Automatically timestamp MassMessage posts?

[Johan Jönsson]

Hey folks,

Because there are a lot of people on this list who are interested in
spreading information on the wikis, which overlaps with an interest in
MassMessage:

In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270435 there's a discussion about how
to be able to use MassMessage when using the new "Page to be sent as a
message" function, which would require an easier way of adding a timestamp.
My suggestion is to add it automatically, since MassMassages are going out
to discussion pages of different kinds, and should be timestamped. If you
have a workflow where you don't want your message to be timestamped, please
let me know off-list or in the Phabricator discussion.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2021, week 02)

[Johan Jönsson]

le
   metadata
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#File_metadata>
now
   includes length. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209679>
   - [image: Advanced item] CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and
   JavaScript <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> code pages now
   have link anchors to line numbers
   
<https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/40e4795d4448b55a6d8c46ff414bcf78/w/index.php/MediaWiki:En.js#L-125>.
   You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50>. [8]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29531>
   - [image: Recurrent item] There was a new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.25> of MediaWiki last
   week. You can read a detailed log
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.25/Changelog> of all
   763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.26> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all
   wikis from 14 January (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 52)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/52>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/52/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/52/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/52/uk> • ‎עברית
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/52/ar> • ‎فارسی
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/52/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/52/ko>

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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/52> are
available.

*Tech News*

   - Because of the holidays
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season> the next
   issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

*Recent changes*

   - The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia
   article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual
   editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason
   and when it was added. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270107>

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

*Future changes*

   - You can propose and discuss
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Ideas>
what
   technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This
   could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
   - Some wikis use LanguageConverter
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_systems/LanguageConverter> to
   switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be
   done for the entire page. There will be a  tag that can
   convert a piece of text on a page. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263082>
   - Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog>. They can soon hide
   multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal
   edits. It will happen in early January. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260904>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 51)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/51>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/es> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/fr> • ‎italiano
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/51/ar> • ‎فارسی
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Recent changes

   - There is a Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS> for KaiOS
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:KaiOS> phones. It was released in
   India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [1]
   
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/growing-wikipedias-reach-with-an-app-for-kaios-feature-phones/>

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.22> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 17 December (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 50)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/50>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/id> • ‎British English
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/en-gb> • ‎English • ‎
Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/nl> • ‎español
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/es> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/it> • ‎lietuvių
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/lt> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/ar> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/50/ko>

Latest tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/50> are
available.

Recent changes

   - You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
   Some wikis already had this function. [1]
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry>[2]
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist_expiry>

Changes later this week

   - Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in
   recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to
   turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences.
   Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki
   will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show
   edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-November/014402.html>
   [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191831>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 10 December (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021>
between
   8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech
   team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> will work on.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 49)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/49>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/en-gb> • ‎Deutsch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/de> • ‎English • ‎
Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/nl> • ‎español
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/es> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/it> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/ar> • ‎فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/fa> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/49/ja>

Latest tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/49> are
available.

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.20> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all
   wikis from 3 December (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - The iOS Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS> will show
   readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier
   see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will
   first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing>. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241253>[2]
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Breaking_Down_the_Wall>
   - [image: Advanced item] The Wiki Replicas
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_replicas> can be used for SQL
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:SQL> queries. You can use Quarry
   <https://quarry.wmflabs.org/>, PAWS
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS> or other ways to do this. To
   make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database
   JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you
   connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think
   this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268498> or on Wikitech
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign>
   . [3]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 48)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/48>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/en-gb> • ‎Deutsch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/de> • ‎English • ‎
Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/nl> • ‎
français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/it> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/ar> • ‎فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/fa> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/48/ja>

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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/48> are
available.

Recent changes

   - Timestamps in Special:Log
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log> are
   now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how
   timestamps work on for example the history page. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207562>

Changes later this week

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

   - [image: Advanced item] The Wikimedia Cloud VPS
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS> hosts technical
   projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2020_Purge> they
   use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year.
   Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can
   be deleted from 1 January. [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-November/094054.html>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 46)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/46>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/en-gb> • ‎Deutsch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/de> • ‎*English* • ‎
Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/nl> • ‎
français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/fr> • ‎lietuvių
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/lt> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/hu> • ‎polski
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Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/ar> • ‎فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/fa> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/46/ko>

Latest *tech news
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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/46> are
available.

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

   - You can see reference previews
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>.
   This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been
   a beta feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features>. It will
   move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to
   use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be
   the first ones. You can let them know
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Michael_Sch%C3%B6nitzer_(WMDE)>
if
   your wiki is interested. [1]
   
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2020-November/002373.html>
   - From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a
   short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version
   of the internationalisation library
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Components_for_Unicode>.
   They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few
   hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations/ICU_announcement>
   . [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991>[3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267145>

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Can you translate this sentence please?

[Johan Jönsson]

sv done.

//Johan Jönsson
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 9:30 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm rewording the browser security message a bit and I need translation of
> this sentence to these languages: zh, es, ja, sv, hi
>
> "Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia are getting more secure. You are
> using an old web browser that will not be able to connect to Wikimedia
> projects in the future. Please update your device or contact your IT
> administrator."
>
>
> (For more information see
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/637850)
> Thank you so much!
> --
> Amir (he/him)
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 43)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/43>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.14> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all
   wikis from 22 October (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour
   on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC)
   <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1603807200>. It will probably be
   shorter than an hour. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264364>
   - [image: Advanced item] In the AbuseFilter
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
extension,
   the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not
   remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of
   rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters'
   behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
   Special:AbuseFilter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> to
   locate its usage. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263024>
   - Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav.
   This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with
   either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at
   the top of phab:T265373 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265373>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 40)

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213778>.
   - In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on
   the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later
   this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> will use push
   notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences
   <https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo> on
   the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October
   and on iOS in early 2021. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262936>
   - You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This
   could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't
   want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki> and will come to more wikis
   later. You can read more
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry>
and see when it will come to other wikis
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry/Release_Schedule>
   .
   - You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools
   this year
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>.
   You can also nominate them.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 39)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/39>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/nl> • ‎español
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/it> • ‎magyar
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Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/pt-br> • ‎suomi
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/ar> • ‎മലയാളം
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/ml> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/39/ko>

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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/39> are
available.

Recent changes

   - There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in
   the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits
   when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older
   version of the page. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254074>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164307>

Changes later this week

   - The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki
   is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of
   users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because
   of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not
   affect them. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on
   all wikis from 24 September (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).

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 to GitLab
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GitLab>. It would be hosted on
   Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation>.
   - [image: Advanced item] Dropdown menus in the Vector skin
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector> use a
   .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul
instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts
   need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262092>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 36)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/36>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/nl> • ‎Türkçe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/tr> • ‎español
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/es> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/it> • ‎magyar
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/sv> • ‎čeština
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/ar> • ‎മലയാളം
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/ml> • ‎ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/th> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/ja> • ‎粵語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/yue> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/36/ko>

Latest *tech news
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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Problems*

   - This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on
   September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on
   the details on the announcement message
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2020>. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243314>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244808>

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 35)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/35>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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 • ‎polski
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* from the
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*Changes later this week*

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    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all
   wikis from 27 August (calendar
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 34)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/34>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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me directly.

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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*

   - If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an
   undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the
   edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking
   edits as undos when they actually do something else. [1]
   
   - The new OOUI version
    will not work
   with Internet Explorer 8
   . This means the
   wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was
   reported in Tech/News/2020/17
   .
   This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates
   other problems. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all
   wikis from 20 August (calendar
   ).

*Future changes*

   - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is
   planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in
   Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a
   reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message
   . [3]
   [4]
   

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• Translate
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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/28>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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*Problems*

   - The Score
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score>
extension
   has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will
   work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257066>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.40> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect
   language-independent information that can be easily read in different
   languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read
   more
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia>.
   [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093571.html>
   - The iOS Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS> developers are
   thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help
   them by answering the survey
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/2020_survey>.
   - Some rules for user signatures
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_requirements_for_user_signatures#Outcome>
will
   soon be enforced. Lint errors
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors> and invalid HTML
   will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not
   be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions
   will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new
   rules <https://signatures.toolforge.org/check>. This is because the
   signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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Hi everyone,

The iOS Wikipedia app team are thinking about some experimental
development and would like iPhone users to do a survey, if they have
the time. It would be much appreciated if you could spread this in
your local community, if it's likely to have iPhone users.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/2020_survey

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 27)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/27>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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available.

Problems

   - Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as
   if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be
   fixed now. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-June/093543.html>
   - Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been
   recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only
   affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been
   fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256444>

Changes later this week

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.39> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all
   wikis from 1 July (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Modern
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Modern> and
   Monobook
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Monobook> skins
   use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for
   Vector <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector>.
   To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in
   Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will
   happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read
   more and see a list of affected scripts
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255953>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] MediaWiki logo discussion

[Johan Jönsson]

Hey everyone,

There's a discussion going on here about changing the MediaWiki logo:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020

This might of interest to your local technical communities. Please help
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 26)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/26>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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Problems

   - There are some new tools
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth> to make it
   easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis
   
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/growthexperiments.dblist>.
   These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time
   last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255607>
   - [image: Advanced item] Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working
   because of a change to CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS>
selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix
   this. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255718>

Changes later this week

   - The developers are working on a new interface
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_conflicts_on_talk_pages>
to
   solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You
   can give feedback
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/mw:Help_talk:Paragraph-based_Edit_Conflict_Interface>
   . [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230231>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.38> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all
   wikis from 25 June (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

Future changes

   - A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile
   friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will
   not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles>
instead.
   91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki
   is affected <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287>. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287>

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 .vector-menu. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254797>

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helped wikis make their main pages more mobile
   friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will
   not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles>
instead.
   118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is
   affected <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287>. [6]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254287>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 23)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/23>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/23/ru> • ‎українська
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*Recent changes*

   - There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app
   <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_app> for Android. It
   has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places
   when you upload geotagged photos. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-May/093431.html>

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could
   not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was
   moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [2]
   
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200528-s4_(commonswiki)_on_read-only_for_8_minutes>
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253808>[4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253825>
   - The Vector skin
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector> had a
   problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You
   couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already.
   It also removed content translation
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation>
links
   and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252800>

*Changes later this week*

   - You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created.
   You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon
   turn them off also in the notifications you get. [6]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46787>
   - [image: image]
The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.35> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all
   wikis from 4 June (calendar
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aphics)> in the
   reader's browser. This will use Javascript
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript>. Graphs will hopefully
   work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users
   who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
   [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236892>
   - [image: Advanced item] Some CSS for the skins has been simplified.
   This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction,
   div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer.
   They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets,
   scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5>. [8]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252467>
   - [image: Advanced item] Some CSS for the Vector skin
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector> has been changed. This
   affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions.
   They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets,
   scripts or user styles. See how
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252447>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 20)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/20>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Nederlands <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/nl> • ‎español
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/es> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/it> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/ru> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/ar> • ‎ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/th> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/20/ko>

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/20> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - Everyone can now import photos from Flickr
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Flickr> to Commons with the
   UploadWizard <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>.
   Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90004>

*Problems*

   - Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251502> will be on
   read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200512T05>.
   This is for database maintenance. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251502>
   - Several wikis including Wikidata
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984> will be on read-only for a
   few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200519T05>.
   English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00
   UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200521T05>.
   This is for database maintenance. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984>[4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251985>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.32> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer
   check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or
   mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a
   time instead. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251855>

*Tech news
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 19)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/19>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/es> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/it> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/pl> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/ru> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/ar> • ‎ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/th> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/19/ko>

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/19> are
available.

*Problems*

   - Some wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251153> will be on
   read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200505T05>.
   This is for database maintenance. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251153>
   - Some wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251157> will be on
   read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CentralAuth>.
   This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or
   confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen
   around 05:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200507T05>.
   This is for database maintenance. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251157>

*Changes later this week*

   - You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created.
   You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46787>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.31> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Tech news
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 17)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/17>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Esperanto <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/eo> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/it> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ar> • ‎हिन्दी
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/hi> • ‎ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/th> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ja> • ‎한국어
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ko>

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/17> are
available.

*Tech News*

   - The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

*Recent changes*

   -  The small wiki toolkits
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> is to help smaller
   wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical
   skills. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-April/093296.html>
   -  Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.
   div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is
   now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5> elements. If your gadgets or
   user styles used them you will have to update them. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248137>

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

   - Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet
   Explorer 8 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer_8> in the
   future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248061>
   - The font in the diffs will change. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250393>
   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.30> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week.
   It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next
   week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by Tech News writers
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 15)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/15>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/fr> • ‎italiano
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/it> • ‎lietuvių
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/lt> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/ar> • ‎ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/th> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/ja>

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/15> are
available.

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on
   desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248141>

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.27> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all
   wikis from 9 April (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Unicode>. Some characters that did not
   have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of
   these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on
   Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10817>. The titles will
   be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April
   2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be
   different from the one the script would rename it to. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279>

*Tech news
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by Tech News writers
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 14)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/14>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Esperanto <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/eo> • ‎français
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/fr> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/ar> • ‎ไทย
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/th> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/zh> • ‎日本語
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/14/ja>

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/14> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - The beta version of the Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> for Android can now help
   users add tags
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_4.0_-_Tag_Commons_images_to_improve_search>
on
   Commons. These tags are called depicts
   <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts>. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239690>

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.26> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all
   wikis from 2 April (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The
   current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old
   player will be removed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418>
   - There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks
   the developers will present ideas on the project page
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates>. You
   can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [3]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-March/093240.html>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 13)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/13>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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*Problems*

   - Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of
the current
   pandemic
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic>.
   You can see the new deployment guidelines
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19>. This is to
   avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
   - There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to
   add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has
   now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247712>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247562>

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.25> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 26 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - There is a project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> to make
   editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what
   initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want
   to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can
   help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/March_2020_inventory>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 11)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/11>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/11/ru> • ‎українська
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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.

*Recent changes*

   - There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to
   search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic,
   Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias
   soon. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240559>[2]
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/Articletopic>[3]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search/articletopic>

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.23> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 12 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/New_requirements_for_user_signatures>.
   You can give feedback
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:New_requirements_for_user_signatures>
   .
   - The Wikipedia Android app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> will
   do push notifications
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Push_Notifications_for_editors>
if
   users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on
   your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.
   [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146032>

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] A minor issue in Tech News 2020/11

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The red link is now no longer red and a Phab task has been added.

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On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 2:12 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <
kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Johan,
>
> On a related note, would it be possible to link to related phabricator as
> a reference? To be clear, I'm not suggesting this as a fix for the red
> link. I'm suggesting this to help curious readers to get more information.
>
> --
> Sivaraam
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 18:33 Johan Jönsson,  wrote:
>
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> Yes, this is because the relevant information doesn't yet exist on the
>> wiki, but we still wanted it in the newsletter to be sent out today. It
>> will be added before the newsletter is distributed. See the talk page (
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News/2020/11).
>>
>> //Johan Jönsson
>> --
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:35 PM Dennis Tobar 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There is a minor issue in the current Tech News <
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/11>, because the push
>>> notifications link is not linked (aka red link).
>>>
>>> [image: Captura de pantalla de 2020-03-09 09-33-08.png]
>>> Kindly,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dennis Tobar Calderón
>>> Ingeniero en Informática UTEM
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] A minor issue in Tech News 2020/11

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi Dennis,

Yes, this is because the relevant information doesn't yet exist on the
wiki, but we still wanted it in the newsletter to be sent out today. It
will be added before the newsletter is distributed. See the talk page (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News/2020/11).

//Johan Jönsson
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:35 PM Dennis Tobar  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is a minor issue in the current Tech News <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/11>, because the push
> notifications link is not linked (aka red link).
>
> [image: Captura de pantalla de 2020-03-09 09-33-08.png]
> Kindly,
>
> --
> Dennis Tobar Calderón
> Ingeniero en Informática UTEM
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 10)

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cated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they
   use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246401>. This affects 183 wikis.
   There is a list <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246401>. [6]
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_Gateway/Mobile_homepage_formatting#MFSpecialCaseMainPage>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 9)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/09>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

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me directly.

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*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.21> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be
   on all wikis from 27 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - There will be a reply button
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/replying>
after
   each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature
   on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to
   turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later.
You can test
   the reply button <https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Cats>.
   It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first
   wikis last week.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 8)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/08>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/08/hu> • ‎polski
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*Recent changes*

   - Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more
about page
   load performance
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Page_load_performance>
   . [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-February/013827.html>
   [2]
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader>

*Changes later this week*

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   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 7)

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Hi,

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   <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Mobile_app>
for
   Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-February/093042.html>

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It
   deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was
   stopped to fix things. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866>

*Changes later this week*

   -  The MediaWiki action API
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page> is
   used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change.
   Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work.
   [3]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-February/093048.html>
   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.19> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be
   on all wikis from 13 February (calendar
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 6)

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   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 5)

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Hi,

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*Problems*

   - Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown.
   Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working
   on fixing it. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242310>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243235>
   - Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions>
can't
   move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing
   it. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231783>

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

   - There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that
   makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding
   the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other
   special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will
   be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please
   tell the developers at phab:T232688
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232688>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 4)

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Hi,

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*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.16> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be
   on all wikis from 23 January (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - There is a new suggestion
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/Improving_tools>
for
   what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to
   give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work
   go faster. You can give feedback
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/Improving_tools>
   .
   -  Pywikibot
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> is
   a Python library <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Library_(computing)> to
   automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Python_(programming_language)>. Use
   the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The
   Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get
   help <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242120> to do so. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2020-January/009976.html>
   -  The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The
   timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446> if this affects you. [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-January/092939.html>
   -  You can read about
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2020/January>
coming
   technical events and mentoring interns.

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Structured "On this day" in android app

[Johan Jönsson]

I haven't found existing docs but have pinged people who can write some
documentation for this – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234102 should
be updated with that soon.

//Johan Jönsson
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 8:25 PM geraki  wrote:

> So, let's use this list for more than the Tech News:
> I posted this in MediaWiki wiki a year ago
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ulh3p09eog4w6z1y>, did not get
> answer, it is not a bug to put in Phabricator. I just need the
> documentation or "how to". Maybe some people here know the answer or where
> to look or whom to ask.
>
> The android Wikipedia app is displaying an "on this day" card with a
> structured timeline of events for english, but not for other languages. How
> is this data extracted, so that we can implement this for other languages?
>
>
> Konstantinos Stampoulis
> ger...@geraki.gr
> https://www.geraki.gr
> ---
> Οι παραπάνω απόψεις είναι προσωπικές και δεν εκφράζουν παρά μόνο εμένα. Το
> μήνυμα θεωρείται εμπιστευτικό μόνο εάν το έχω ζητήσει ρητά, διαφορετικά
> μπορείτε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε σε οποιαδήποτε δημόσια συζήτηση.
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2020, week 3)

[Johan Jönsson]

ange and you will see an
   error message instead. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240858>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 51)

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Hi,

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You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
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*Problems*

   - The Linter extension
    helps
   you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last
   week. This was because of an API
   
problem.
   It is now working again. [1] 
   - Special:Watchlist  can
   show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are
   read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The
   developers are working on solving the problem. [2]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a
   summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you
   can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on
   the wiki. [3] 
   -  The new version  of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be
   on all wikis from 19 December (calendar
   ).

*Meetings*

   -   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
   meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18
   December at 16:00 (UTC)
   .
   See how to join
   .

*Future changes*

   - The partial blocks
   

feature
   is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask
   to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF)
    if you don't
   want it now. [4] 

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 50)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/50>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/fr> • ‎italiano
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/pt> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/sv> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/he> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/ar> • ‎فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/50/fa> • ‎ไทย
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/50> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki <https://translatewiki.net/> to
   translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/watch-translations/> to watch projects there.
   You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238216>
   -  There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors
   per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the
   documentation
   
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Geoeditors/Public>
and download the dataset
   <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/geoeditors/readme.html>.

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.10> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be
   on all wikis from 12 December (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   -   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
   meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11
   December at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191211T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - You can test a new reference tool
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Book_referencing>.
   It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without
   repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Cluster>. You
   can see an example article
   <https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Draft:Cut_the_Crap#cite_ref-3>
   . [2] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vc9k7gf9kvqxkkva>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 48)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/48>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/fr> • ‎magyar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/hu> • ‎polski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/pl> • ‎português do
Brasil <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/pt-br> • ‎suomi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/fi> • ‎svenska
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/sv> • ‎čeština
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/cs> • ‎русский
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/ru> • ‎српски / srpski
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/sr> • ‎українська
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/uk> • ‎עברית
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/he> • ‎اردو
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/ur> • ‎العربية
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/ar> • ‎فارسی
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/fa> • ‎中文
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/48/zh> • ‎日本語
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/48> are
available.

*Changes later this week*

   - The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The
   developers will focus on the desktop improvements
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements> project.
   You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions>
if
   you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This
   can instead be done with a gadget or user script
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:Jdlrobson/scripts/backtotop.js>.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237290>
   - Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> is software we use
   for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This
   has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two
   weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that
   don't look right. If you see any you can report them
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229015>. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229015>
   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.8> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will
   be on the other wikis next week (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>). This is
   because of holidays.

*Meetings*

   -   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
   meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27
   November at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191127T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in
   the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the
   desktop view. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230695>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 47)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/47>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Brasil  • ‎suomi
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* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
 are
available.

*Problems*

   - You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30
   minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC)
   .
   You can see which wikis . It
   will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
   centralauth
   
database.
   This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis,
   changing emails or global renames
   

   . [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey
   
.
   The survey decides what the Community Tech team
    will work on. You can
   vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist
   will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity,
   Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more
   

about
   the format for this year.
   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Meetings*

   -   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
   meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20
   November at 16:00 (UTC)
   .
   See how to join
   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 46)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/46>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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 • ‎Nederlands
 • ‎español
 • ‎français
 • ‎lietuvių
 • ‎polski
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 • ‎português do
Brasil  • ‎suomi
 • ‎svenska
 • ‎čeština
 • ‎русский
 • ‎српски / srpski
 • ‎українська
 • ‎עברית
 • ‎العربية
 • ‎ไทย
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 from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
 are
available.

Recent changes

   - MediaWiki2LaTeX  can put
   different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF
   . It can now make a PDF with
   around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

   -   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
   meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13
   November at 16:00 (UTC)
   .
   See how to join
   .

Future changes

   - Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in
   . This is for young
   students who want to help with open source software. You can read more
   . Experienced
   technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 45)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/45>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Brasil  • ‎suomi
 • ‎svenska
 • ‎čeština
 • ‎Ελληνικά
 • ‎русский
 • ‎српски / srpski
 • ‎українська
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* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - At Special:Contributions
    you could see up
   to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL
   . This has been lowered to 500.
   This is to stop requests which break the sites. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a
   user for your wiki. You will be able to use
   MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length
   for IP editors. [2] 
   -  The new version  of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be
   on all wikis from 7 November (calendar
   ).

*Meetings*

   -   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
   meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6
   November at 15:00 (UTC)
   .
   See how to join
   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 42)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/42>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎ไทย • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 •

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/42> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - You can now use more advanced editing tools
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions>
on
   the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the
   mobile version. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233612>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.2> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all
   wikis from 17 October (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191016T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - Internet Explorer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer> 6
   and 7 are no longer supported
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility>. This means the browsers
   might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security
support. You can't
   read <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS/Browser_Recommendations>
Wikimedia
   wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older
   than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore.
   Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232563>
   - In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to
   make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 41)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/41>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎Ελληνικά • ‎русский
• ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎中文 • ‎日本語

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/41> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] The abuse filter function
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter> now has a faster
   parser <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Parsing>. This is to shorten
   the waiting time when you save an edit. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156095>

*Problems*

   - There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text
   with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234489>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all
   wikis from 10 October (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191009T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - The Community Wishlist Survey
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020> has a
   new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will
   probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly
   how it will work this year. You can leave feedback
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020>.
   - The URL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL> of the Wikimedia wiki
   main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several
   problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would
   be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120085> if this would cause problems
   for your wiki.
   - There is a new technical community newsletter
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2019/October>.
   You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community.
   Subscribe
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/Subscribe> to
   get the information in the future.
   - [image: Advanced item] Outreachy
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Outreachy> is an internship program
   for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There
   are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality
   assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply
   <https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/#wikimedia>. The last
   day to apply is 5 November.

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[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/40>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

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   got it three times should now be fixed. [1]
   

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
    of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all
   wikis from 3 October (calendar
   ).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC)
   .
   See how to join
   .

*Future changes*

   - The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team
    is working on a watchlist
   expiry feature
   . This
   means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of
   forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have
   

   .
   - Special:Contributions
    will get the
   standard OOUI look .
   This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other
   Special: pages. There is a script
   

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   can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [2]
   

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/39>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/39> are
available.

*Problems*

   - Some edits that used the visual editor were not working. This has now
   been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230272>
   - Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the
   newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The developers are working on
   the problem. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232379>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.24> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 September. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 September. It will be on
   all wikis from 26 September (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).
   - You will be able to read but not to edit an important number of
   mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes on 24 September at 05:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190924T05>.
   You can see which wikis
   
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s3.dblist>
   . [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788>
   - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to
   30 minutes on 26 September at 05:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190926T05>.
   [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788>

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 September at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190925T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - Internet Explorer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer> 6
   and 7 might not be supported
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility> in the future. This means
   the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They would not get security
   support. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore.
   Supporting them makes the wikis less secure for everyone else. [5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232563>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2016, week 38)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/38>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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• ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 • ‎ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ

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available.

*Problems*

   - Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the
   newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The developers are working on
   the problem. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232379>
   - There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new
   version was paused. [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-September/092535.html>

*Changes later this week*

   - You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up
   to 30 minutes on September 17 at 05:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190917T05>.
   You can see which wikis
   
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s2.dblist>
   . [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.23> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 September. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 September. It will be on
   all wikis from 19 September (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 September at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190918T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - The Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
   Android invites users to do small tasks. This is to get more readers to
   edit. If they get reverted too many times it will pause or block the tasks
   for that user. All normal editing will still work if the community doesn't
   block the user. The developers want to know if the plan looks OK.
You can see
   what it could look like
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_3.0_-_Improved_Suggested_Edits_Homescreen_and_Feature_Pausing>
and give feedback
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
   .
   - [image: Advanced item] When you look at an old version of a page you
   get a warning that this is not the newest version. This uses the CSS
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets> class
   .mw-revision. It will use the CSS class .warningbox for styling instead.
   If your wiki uses templates to change how the warning looks they will have
   to be updated. This will happen later. If this would cause problems you
   should tell the developers in the next couple of weeks. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232415>

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[Johan Jönsson]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:16 PM Zppix  wrote:

> I don’t know if its been stated somewhere, but why is there no tech news
> issue next week?
>

None of the writers (me, Benoît, Nick) are available:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News#No_issue_next_week_%E2%80%93_unless_you_want_to_write_it

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 34)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/34>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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• ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎中文 • ‎日本語

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/34> are
available.

*Tech News*

   - There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech
   News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

*Problems*

   - [image: Advanced item] Some abuse filters stopped working because of a
   code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables
   defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read
   more <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230256> to see how to fix the
   filters.
   - Only six accounts can be created from one IP address
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address> per day. Between 12 August
   and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security
   issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230521>

*Changes later this week*

   - Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address>. An IP address can be
   whitelisted <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Whitelisting> so that it
   can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many
   new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this
   reason will also not show CAPTCHAs
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA> when you create accounts.
   This will happen on Wednesday. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227487>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all
   wikis from 22 August (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190821T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - There is an RFC
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Request_for_Comments> about creating
   a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter>. This will be
   used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when
   software changes happen. You can read more and comment
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Creating_abusefilter-manager_global_group>
   .
   - Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is
   because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can
   see this in the recent changes feed instead. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220447>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 33)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/23>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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‎русский • ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎中文 • ‎日本語

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/33> are
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*Recent changes*

   - Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced
   features
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions>
via
   your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special
   pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228916>
   - Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the
   link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors
   using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223824>

*Changes later this week*

   - Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [3]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_12th>

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190813T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other
   projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21st. Full
   announcement
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-August/013316.html>
   , Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66315>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 29)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/29>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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‎日本語

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/29> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more
   Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian,
   Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the
   mobile web and give feedback. [1]
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Advanced_mobile_contribution_options_second_update>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Advanced item] The abuse filter system user will soon do
   maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Abuse
   filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical
   problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209565>.
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.14> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all
   wikis from 18 July (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190717T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - The Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
   Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It
   will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without
   being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
and leave feedback
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
   . [2]
   
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2019/03#Edit_action_feed_(Android_Wikipedia_app)>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 26)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/26>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/26> are
available.

*Problems*

   - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.10> of
   MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was
   removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092212.html>
   - Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one
   of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225981>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.11> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all
   wikis from 27 June (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092210.html>.
   It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects.
   The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190626T13>.
   A recording will be kept for later viewing.
   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190626T15>.
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 25)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/25>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
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• ‎فارسی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎মেইতেই লোন্ • ‎中文 • ‎日本語

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/25> are
available.

*Problems*

   - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30
   minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190619T05>.
   This is to fix a hardware problem. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224516>

*Changes later this week*

   - MIDI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MIDI> files can soon be played
   without the Score extension
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score>. You
   can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and
   override_audiowill stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI
   file below the music score. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135597>
   - A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to
   enable it as a beta feature in your preferences
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>.
   It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148103>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all
   wikis from 20 June (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190619T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old
   wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true.
   They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You
   should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [4]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/504076>

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 24)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/24>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 • ‎粵語

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/24> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by
   Proton <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proton>. Before this we used
   Electron <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Electron>. It should look the
   same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from
   when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210651>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748>
   - The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons.
   There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next
   deployment. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155878>
   - [image: Advanced item] Bots and other scripts that do not set an
   identifiable User-Agent
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User-Agent_policy> may
   find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves
   properly. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224891>

*Problems*

   - Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as
   you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it
   
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Wikimedia-Site-Requests%2CMediaWiki-extensions-FlaggedRevs>
   . [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225144>

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190612T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 23)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/23>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
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‎中文 • ‎日本語

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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/23> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia
   languages. This works in the desktop version. [1]
   
<https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-african-wikipedia-languages/>
   - There is now a field called depicts
   <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts> on Commons. This is
   a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still
   in development. [2]
   
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Adding_qualifiers_to_Depicts>
   - Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of
   database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new
   schema. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406>[4]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-May/000172.html>

*Problems*

   - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30
   minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190619T05>.
   This is to fix a hardware problem. [5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224516>

*Changes later this week*

   - Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a
   wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs,
   clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor.
   It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [6]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223793>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 June at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190605T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 22)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/22>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
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‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎中文 • ‎日本語

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*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Advanced item] Big changes to the replica database
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Replication_(computing)> will happen
   on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction> will
   stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema.
   This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by
   a user. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406>[2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-May/000172.html>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.7> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190528T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 20)

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Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/20>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
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srpski • ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語

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*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New Wikitext editor has problems with IMEs?

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Just for your information, this has been filed in Phabricator here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222894

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On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 2:38 PM Deryck Chan  wrote:
>
> Has there been a change to the 2017 Wikitext editor recently?
>
> User:恐狼博士 from the Cantonese Wikipedia reported that Chinese IMEs (Cangjie in 
> his case) has been malfunctioning when used inside Wikitext mode. Predictive 
> text no longer works. This malfunction started two weeks ago.
>
> He's unsure whether he was on old or new Wikitext mode before. Was there any 
> significant change to the 2017 Wikitext editor in the last month?
>
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 19)

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Hi,

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   - Special:Watchlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist> can
   show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read
   and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218511>

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   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 16)

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Hi,

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*Recent changes*

   - All wikis now have the TemplateWizard
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:TemplateWizard>
for
   the wikitext editor.

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all
   wikis from 18 April (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190417T15>.
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   - Wikidata will get a new constraint status
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal#Constraint_statements_on_properties>
called suggestion. This will change
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012911.html> how
   the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012910.html>
   [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439>
   - You can test the depicts property
   
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f the page to see a reference.
   This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic
   Wikipedia. [9]
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
   [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67114>
   - [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata JSON
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JSON> output will change. Empty
   containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change
   that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30
   April. You can read more and see how to test your code
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012891.html>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 14)

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Hi,

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   - Notifications
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications> tell
   you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications
   about new links to pages you created
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifications_types#echo-category-title-article-linked>.
   For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219444>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.24> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all
   wikis from 4 April (calendar
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 13)

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Hi,

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   - The new version of the content translation tool
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/V2>
will
   be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for
   translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change.
   More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new
   version. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212646>

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with editing with Safari
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Safari_(web_browser)> on iOS
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IOS>. When you wrote an edit summary
   you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218352>
   - The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IOS> devices. This will be fixed soon.
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218414>
   - Wikis can over-ride interface messages
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:System_message>
on-wiki.
   A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were
   shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of
   the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out
   users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for
   them. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218918>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.23> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 28 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

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   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190327T16>.
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 12)

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Hi,

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*Changes later this week*

   - When you use rollback
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting#Advanced_features> you
   will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you
   wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt
   in
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering>
to
   get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199534>[2]
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Rollback>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.22> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 21 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190320T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a
   namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks>.
   If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the
   developers
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks>
   . [3]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-August/090842.html>
   - [image: Advanced item] Toolforge
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge> will shut down the
   Ubuntu Trusty job grid
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation>.
   This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be
   moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be
   taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be
   able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/trusty-tools/>.

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Partial blocks

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 4:57 PM Johan Jönsson  wrote:
>
> Hey Sydney,
>
> I could (in my volunteer role) start this on Swedish Wikipedia. Do you
> want me to include this in Tech News going out on Monday, that wikis
> that want to can sign up?
>
> //Johan Jönsson
> --

... in which was obviously supposed to be a private reply. Ah well. My
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Partial blocks

[Johan Jönsson]

Hey Sydney,

I could (in my volunteer role) start this on Swedish Wikipedia. Do you
want me to include this in Tech News going out on Monday, that wikis
that want to can sign up?

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 4:54 PM Sydney Poore  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The Anti-Harassment Tools team is ready to deploy Partial blocks to more 
> Wikimedia Foundation wikis. 1
>
> Improvements to Special:Block allow administrators to block a user off of a 
> specific page (or group of pages) or a specific namespace (or group of 
> namespaces.)
>
> Let me know if you want to start a discussion on your wiki about introducing 
> partial blocks at this early stage while we are making the final decisions 
> about the design and functionality of this version. Your wiki can give our 
> team feedback that will inform these improvements.
>
> Sydney Poore
>
> 1 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 11)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/11>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/11> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - Pages can use geocoordinates
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625> from Wikidata with the
   mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)> function or
   the #statements parser function
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Parser_functions>.
   If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer 
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer#%3Cmaplink%3E>
if
   the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on
   Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210926>.
   - There is now an EventStream
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventStreams> to see when links are
   added or removed
   <https://stream.wikimedia.org/?doc#!/Streams/get_v2_stream_page_links_change>
on
   Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115119>.

*Problems*

   - Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19
   March (UTC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time>).
   This will start at 15:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190319T15>.
   It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list
   of affected wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217441>. This is
   because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
   - Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem
   with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes,
   templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of
   the text. This has now been fixed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214976>
   - Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [2]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20190308-wdqs>
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217898>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 14 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190313T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 10)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/10>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/10> are
available.

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.20> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all
   wikis from 7 March (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190306T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - You can give feedback
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_group_sign-up>
on
   the future of talk pages.
   - The mobile website will use the standard fonts
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Font> on your computer or phone
   instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many
   scripts. [1]
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_experience>
   [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877>

*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
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 09)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/09>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎русский •
‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 • ‎粵語

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/09> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - There is a new version
   
<https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=324715238&mt=8>
of
   the iOS Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_FAQ>.
   It has for example syntax highlighting
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting> and new toolbars
   to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page
   function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps>. [1]
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Editing_program>

*Changes later this week*

   - When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use
   the new filters for edit review
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>.
   There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no
   longer be shown. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182219>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 28 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190227T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - The Wikipedia app
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
   Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects
   that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only
   invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app
   without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read
   more
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
and leave feedback
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 08)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/08>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/08> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - When you thank
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Thanks> someone
   on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This
   is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63737>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 21 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190220T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

*Future changes*

   - There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if
   there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop.
You can leave
   feedback
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Readers/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions>
   . [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211006>

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

[Johan Jönsson]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:18 PM Deryck Chan  wrote:

> I love how the list of available languages is different each week (and
> hints at which WMF devs will be on the line). --Deryck
>

Or WMDE (Wikimedia Germany) devs. (:

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 07)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/07>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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• ‎中文 • ‎日本語

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/07> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - You can use the ambox
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Making_page_issues_(ambox_templates)_mobile_friendly>
CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets> class to
   show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles_on_Wikimedia_wikis#Making_page_issues_(ambox_templates)_mobile_friendly>
you
   can use.

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.17> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 14 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190213T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 06)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/06>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
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*Changes later this week*

   - It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences>. This will now be
   fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213517>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all
   wikis from 7 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190206T16>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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by Tech News writers
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 05)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/05>.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact
me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*

   - The Wikimedia servers use HHVM  to
   run the PHP  code. They are going
   to use PHP7
   

and
   stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature
   .
   That way you can help find and report
    problems.

*Problems*

   - When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that
   had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months
   this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has
   now been fixed. [1] 

*Changes later this week*

   - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
   technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
   can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC)
   .
   See how to join
   .

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 04)

[Johan Jönsson]

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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Read-only period tomorrow (or very late today)

[Johan Jönsson]

Hey everyone,

Terribly sorry about the short notice – this is not a planned thing,
it's an emergency fix. Most wikis (but not the biggest ones) will be
read-only for up to 30 minutes at 07:00 UTC AM tomorrow, 17 January.
Depending on your time zone, that might be late 16 January. It'll
probably be shorter than 30 minutes.

There's a Phab task here with more information and a list of affected wikis:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213858

That list is very long, so to make it easier, I've put a list of wikis
that are *not* affected here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Johan_(WMF)/201901ReadOnlyPage

Please help spread this in your community, if it's affected.

//Johan Jönsson
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[Wikitech-ambassadors] Ready for early translation: Tech News #03 (2019)

[Johan Jönsson]

The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/50

Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F03&action=page

I plan to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e. Monday
morning PT. The existing translations will be posted on the wikis in
that language. Deadlines:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors#The_deadlines

There may be a more edits by Friday but the existing content should
generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday in any
case.

Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, we appreciate your help and feedback.

(If you haven't translated Tech News previously, see this email:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2017-January/003773.html

If I can help you with anything, please ask!)

//Johan Jönsson
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