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*Tech News*
- There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech
News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
*Problems*
- [image: Advanced item] Some abuse filters stopped working because of a
code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables
defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read
more <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230256> to see how to fix the
filters.
- Only six accounts can be created from one IP address
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address> per day. Between 12 August
and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security
issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230521>
*Changes later this week*
- Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address>. An IP address can be
whitelisted <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Whitelisting> so that it
can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many
new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this
reason will also not show CAPTCHAs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA> when you create accounts.
This will happen on Wednesday. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227487>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all
wikis from 22 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190821T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- There is an RFC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Request_for_Comments> about creating
a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter>. This will be
used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when
software changes happen. You can read more and comment
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Creating_abusefilter-manager_global_group>
.
- Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is
because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can
see this in the recent changes feed instead. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220447>
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