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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/2016/40> are
available.
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all
wikis from 6 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 4 October at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=10&year=2016>.
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. Instead
the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext.
This would cause problems
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy> on a number of
wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89331>
- <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should
use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October
you should ask for it <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps> as soon
as possible. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136768>
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//Johan Jönsson