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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
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/48> are
available.
*Changes this week*
- When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked
by a cookie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTTP_cookie>. This means
their browser <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser> will be
blocked even if they change their IP address
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address>. This makes it more
difficult for returning vandals. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233>
- When you use Content Translation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> to
adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can
adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over
the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It
is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be
more updates for this soon. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139332>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all
wikis from 1 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Gadgets will have a new option called
"hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or
off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using
[rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in
old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets#Options>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33150>
*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 29 November at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=29&month=11&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Tool Labs <https://tools.wmflabs.org/> could
get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an
active developer
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Abandoned_tool_policy>.
The other would be a right to fork
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Right_to_fork_policy>.
There is a request for comment on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools>
.
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