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العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/ar> • čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/cs> • suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/fi> • français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/fr> • עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/he> • हिन्दी <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/hi> • 日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/ja> • polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/pl> • русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/ru> • українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/uk> • 粵語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/yue> • 中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/31/zh> If you wish to help on the writing or the distribution, please check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors *Recent changes* - The design on Special:Log <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log> has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117737> *Problems* - Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-July/000577.html> [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-July/000585.html> - Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-July/000587.html> [5] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-July/000589.html> *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.15> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 July at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180731T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_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 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180801T15> as well as at 23:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180801T23>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - After a community discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Creation_of_separate_user_group_for_editing_sitewide_CSS/JS>, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators>" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css> or MediaWiki:Common.js <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js>. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018. *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/2018/31> • 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>.* -- Benoît Evellin (Trizek) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation
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