Reminder: The IRC breaking change is happening tomorrow! On 21 March 2016 at 16:07, Johan Jönsson <[email protected]> wrote:
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Please tell other users about these changes. > Not all changes will affect you. Translations > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/12> are > available. > > *Problems* > > - Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia > Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place > the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2016>. There will > be more notifications and updates about this. > - In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the > bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now > been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128282> > > *Changes this week* > > - It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve > CAPTCHAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA>. [2] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103122> > - You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [3] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73564> > - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.18> of MediaWiki > will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on > non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all > wikis from 23 March (calendar > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>). > > *Meetings* > > - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the > VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs > you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at > 19:00 (UTC) > > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=03&year=2016>. > See how to join > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. > > *Future changes* > > - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will > no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change > for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [4] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122933> > > *Tech news > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared > by tech ambassadors > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and > posted by bot > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> > • Contribute > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • > Translate > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/12> • Get > help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* > > > //Johan Jönsson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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