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
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

Reply via email to