Hello The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/30>. Below is the English version.
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This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093633.html> - The first features of the Desktop Improvements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements> project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck *Use Legacy Vector* in your local <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering> or global <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-rendering> preferences in section *Skin preferences*. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements>. - [image: Advanced item] On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js>, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js#Time_zones> . *Problems* - [image: Advanced item] The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093640.html> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257969> - Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144780> - Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257766> *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.2> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 July. It will be on all wikis from 30 July (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>). *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/2020/31> • 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 (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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