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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/2017/20> are available. *Recent changes* - You can now use ISBNs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Book_Number> to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145462> - The Two Column Edit Conflict View <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View> is available as a beta feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features> on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162806> *Problems* - The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js> may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/18> issue. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122755> *Changes this week* - The RevisionSlider extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider> will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163685> - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *Future changes* - Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [5] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Smalyshev_(WMF)/Archive_search>[6] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Search#Provide_a_means_of_searching_for_deleted_pages> - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transclusion> or web addresses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL> it has to be escaped <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Escape_character> appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Preprocessor> and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups/20170501> and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:False_positives_and_false_negatives>. You can read more about what to fix <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups/Edit_logbook#Edit_Rules> . [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/>[8] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups> *Older unreported changes* - Your Meta user page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage> is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90849>[10] <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words&diff=2462141&oldid=2425686> *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 <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/2017/20> • 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
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