I don’t know if its been stated somewhere, but why is there no tech news issue next week?
-- Devin “Zppix” CCENT Volunteer Wikimedia Developer Africa Wikimedia Developers Member and Mentor Volunteer Mozilla Support Team Member (SUMO) Quora.com Partner Program Member enwp.org/User:Zppix **Note: I do not work for Wikimedia Foundation, or any of its chapters. I also do not work for Mozilla, or any of its projects. ** > On Aug 19, 2019, at 10:23 AM, Johan Jönsson <jjons...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > The latest technical newsletter is now available at > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/34>. Below > is the English version. > > You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about > Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you > can add it to the next newsletter at > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>. > > More information on how to contribute is available at > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact > me directly. > > As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. > > ——————————————————————————— > > Other languages: > Bahasa Indonesia • Deutsch • English • Tiếng Việt • español • français • > polski • português do Brasil • suomi • svenska • čeština • русский • > українська • עברית • العربية • 中文 • 日本語 > > Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other > users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are > available. > > Tech News > > There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will > be sent out on 2 September 2019. > Problems > > Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables > for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not > work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters. > Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 > August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a > security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [1] > Changes later this week > > Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP > address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. > This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses > that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you > create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [2] > The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 > August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. > It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar). > Meetings > > You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, > volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at > 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. > Future changes > > There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit > abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all > filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and > comment. > Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of > performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the > recent changes feed instead. [3] > Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • > Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
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