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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/2018/15> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article.
There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the
article and how they could help fix it. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues#Updates_to_the_page_issue_modal>
- You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page.
This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous/Allow_%27thanks%27_notification_for_a_log_entry>
last year. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60485>
- The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time
starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an
internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the
database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on
wiki size. You can read more details
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations/ICU_announcement>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189295>
- Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter
title is in a language that is written in another direction than the
language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written
from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to
left). [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190718>
*Problems*
- The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page
disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191366>
- For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag
on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now
been fixed. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190374>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.29> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all
wikis from 12 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>).
- Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes
filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually
patrolled edits. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190408>
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] 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 10 April at 18:30 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=04&day=10>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_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 11 April at 15:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=11&month=04&year=2018>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists> later
in April.
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