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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/2016/06> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Syntax highlighting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting> support is now
available for 53 more computer languages. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084695.html>
- When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the
notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121808>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] RESTBase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase> is now using
scrub_wikitext instead
of scrubWikitext. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114620>
*Changes this week*
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for
formulas. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124931>[5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.13> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all
wikis from 11 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/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 9 February at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=02&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for
pages of multilingual wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662>.
The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=02&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until
we started using forced HTTPS
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HTTPS> in June 2015.
This is planned to happen on 15 February. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276>[7]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy>
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be
used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February
16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [8]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html>
[9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125633>[10]
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/Identifiers>
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