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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/30> are
available:
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<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/cs> • Ελληνικά
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<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/fi> • français
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/fr> • עברית
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/he> • italiano
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/it> • 日本語
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/ja> • ಕನ್ನಡ
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/kn> • polski
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/pl> • português do
Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/pt-br> •
русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/30/ru> • 中文
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*Recent changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] CSS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets> in templates
will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier
to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on
mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki> and Wikitech
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>. It will come to more
wikis later. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles/Q%26A>[2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tl7vrw6suzkxxoy9>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170863>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is
deprecated and has been removed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155203>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.11> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all
wikis from 27 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
- It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a
wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the
Notifications tab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo>,
on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications#mute>. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150419>
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you
think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 July at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=07&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July
2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and
the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The
meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=27&month=07&year=2017>.
See the agenda and how to join
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-July/088080.html>
.
*Future changes*
- New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta
feature, will be released by default
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2017/07>
for
the Recent Changes in September.
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