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*Recent changes*
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from
the Collaboration team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration> at
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and notifications. You can read the first issue
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*Problems*
- Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Public_key_certificate#Certificates_and_website_security>
last
week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GlobalSign> had. This has now been
fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20161013-GlobalSign>
- Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> for Android. This has
now been fixed in the beta version. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132834>
*Changes this week*
- There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&oldid=898289>
*Future changes*
- The Editing Department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing> are
working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual
editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2017_wikitext_editor>. This is an early
plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.
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