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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
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/2019/13> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The new version of the content translation tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/V2>
will
be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for
translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change.
More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new
version. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212646>
*Problems*
- There was a problem with editing with Safari
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Safari_(web_browser)> on iOS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IOS>. When you wrote an edit summary
you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218352>
- The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IOS> devices. This will be fixed soon.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218414>
- Wikis can over-ride interface messages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:System_message>
on-wiki.
A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were
shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of
the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out
users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for
them. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218918>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.23> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all
wikis from 28 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 27 March at 16:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190327T16>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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//Johan Jönsson