I will sum these up and add them to tech news thanks for the notification!
Sent from my iPhone > On May 22, 2017, at 7:37 AM, Erica Litrenta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > a few notes about a few upcoming changes. Ambassadors' support is appreciated > to make sure nothing falls in the cracks. > > 1) The new version of MediaWiki which is scheduled to go into production > tomorrow involves an extra <div> tag wrapping HTML served from the MediaWiki > wikitext parser [1]. Please notify the team on Phabricator [2] in case issues > with the extra <div> tag arise (not necessarily gadgets-related): it will be > watched by people who can help you evaluate and assist you with any necessary > fixes. We really appreciate the translators' assistance with the > (unfortunately) last minute heads-up [3]. > > 2) Some code fixes to the preprocessor should go live as well and they may, > in certain cases, break markup that looks like code for language variants > [4]. This has been flagged lately in Tech News and most fixes have already > occurred (you can check the current status at [5]), so I wanted to take some > time to properly thank those who volunteered so far. In particular, a special > mention should go to DePiep who single-handedly fixed articles at some of the > biggest wikis, and provided insights and feedback into the process. I'd like > to extend the team's and my gratitude, in no particular order, also to Thiemo > Mättig (WMDE), Vriullop, VIGNERON, Thurs, MarcoSwart, Lsanabria, Amire 80, > IKhitron and whoever contributed their time and knowledge so far. > > My team is going to be involved in some work that may cause breaking changes > this year, so any feedback is appreciated on our talk page. [6] > > Thanks for your understanding, HTH > > Elitre (WMF) > Senior Community Liaison > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF) > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T37247 > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163512 > [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2017-May/004041.html > [4] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups > [5] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups/20170501 > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
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