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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/2017/37> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can get a notification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/552232398> when a page you
created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these
notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It
is now available on all wikis. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142102>
- The Newsletter extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Newsletter>
is
now on
mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where
you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been
published. It will come to more wikis later. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-September/088714.html>
- The Linter extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Linter> helps
you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority
category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with
horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter> and the Tidy
whitespace bug
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter/tidy-whitespace-bug>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173096>
*Problems*
- Tech News 2017/36
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/36>
reported
about new filters for edit review
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
coming
to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next
week instead. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171030>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on
all wikis from 14 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] OOjs UI
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> will be updated. This could
affect some icons. You can read more about the changes
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-September/088711.html>
.
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting
on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The
meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=09&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
- [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 12 September at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=09&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- You can't use OCG
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator> to create
PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use
Electron
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ElectronPdfService>
instead.
Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing
features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all
planned features until November or December. You can read more on
mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality>
.
- New filters for edit review
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
are
available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters
and other features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Txr92g0lwqv1rpao> will be deployed
as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in
their preferences. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164489>
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