Hi sir Johan, I have been questing on this for a while now but no avail. The issue is, how do I go about distributing the tech news? Its a burning passion within me doing this. Waiting.......
Thanks On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:46 AM Johan Jönsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The latest technical newsletter is now available at < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/03>. > 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>. 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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/2020/03> are > available. > > *Recent changes* > > - You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old > TLS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transport_Layer_Security>. This > is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade > attacks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Downgrade_attack>. Since 9 > December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the > wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can > read the browser recommendations > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS/Browser_Recommendations>. > [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238038> > - Special:LinkSearch > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch> has been moved > from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages> to the "Lists > of pages" section. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242146> > > *Changes later this week* > > - Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The > standard protection levels are Allow only autoconfirmed users and Allow > only administrators. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical > name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users > see. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230103> > - The new version > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.15> of MediaWiki > will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on > non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all > wikis from 16 January (calendar > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>). > > *Future changes* > > - Deepcat > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph/Deepcat> > and Catgraph > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Catgraph> will stop > working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can > now use the normal search function instead. [4] > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-January/092936.html> > - You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each > other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the > order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was > shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an > error message instead. 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