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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/2018/51> are available. *Tech News* - Because of the holidays <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season> the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019. *Recent changes* - Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues> [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210553> - Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150826> - [image: Advanced item] The ParserMigration extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ParserMigration> has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/RemexHtml> instead of Tidy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy>. *Problems* - <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211576> *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.9> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>). *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 19 December at 16:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181219T16>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features> about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dchen_(WMF)> you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her. - [image: Advanced item] tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mapnik>, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. 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