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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Problems*
- The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they
were. This has now been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156453>
*Changes this week*
- Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share
them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see
an example of before <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F5432146> and
after <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F5432049>. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157055>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There are some changes to the OOjs UI
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI>. Some old functions will not
work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change.
[3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-February/087547.html>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.11> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all
wikis from 9 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=07&month=02&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Tidy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML_Tidy> will be replaced later this
year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad
HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy> on a number of
wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has
something to fix here <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitext-deprecation/> for
one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can
read about more problems
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy#Things_to_fix>.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89331>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423>
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