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*Recent changes*
- Pages can use geocoordinates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625> from Wikidata with the
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)> function or
the #statements parser function
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Parser_functions>.
If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink>
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer#%3Cmaplink%3E>
if
the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on
Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210926>.
- There is now an EventStream
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventStreams> to see when links are
added or removed
<https://stream.wikimedia.org/?doc#!/Streams/get_v2_stream_page_links_change>
on
Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115119>.
*Problems*
- Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19
March (UTC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time>).
This will start at 15:00 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190319T15>.
It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list
of affected wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217441>. This is
because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
- Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem
with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes,
templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of
the text. This has now been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214976>
- Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20190308-wdqs>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217898>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all
wikis from 14 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190313T16>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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