Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/35> are available:
Deutsch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/de> • Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/vi> • français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/fr> • italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/it> • magyar <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/hu> • português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/pt> • português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/pt-br> • slovenčina <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/sk> • suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/fi> • svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/sv> • čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/cs> • русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/ru> • українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/uk> • עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/he> • اردو <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/ur> • العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/ar> • فارسی <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/fa> • বাংলা <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/bn> • 中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/zh> • 日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/35/ja> *Recent changes* - Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_score_rendering_errors> on your wiki for a list of pages with errors. *Problems* - Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289554> *Changes later this week* - [image: Advanced item] The parameters for how you obtain tokens <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tokens> in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280806#7215377> about this. - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>). *Future changes* - You will be able to read but not edit Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289660> for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1630818058>. This is for database maintenance. - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287539> *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/2021/35> • 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> on wiki.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
_______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
