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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/2016/33> are
available.
*Problems*
- Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you
mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This
caused some problems and will happen later instead. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138080>
- Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now
works again in the visual editor. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112898>
- For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working
properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were
present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and
not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140836>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140327>
*Changes this week*
- The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a
year
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/%22Keep_me_logged_in%22_extended_to_one_year>.
Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68699>
- Some abuse filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
will
have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987>
- In compact language links
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language_Links>,
two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list:
Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the
article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70071>[8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70077>
- The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors
on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for
logged-in editors. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142587>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.15> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all
wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=16&month=08&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment
windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more
times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for
developers in different parts of the world. [10]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-August/000266.html>
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