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*Changes later this week*
- Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as
part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons
are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta
Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others.
While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger;
elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not
change. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432> [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97631>
- [image: Advanced item] The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have
been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content
(ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc
and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187808>
- TemplateStyles
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles> will be
deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189834>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.27> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all
wikis from 29 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>).
*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 27 March at 18:30 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=03&day=27>.
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 one hour earlier than usual on 28
March at 15:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=03&year=2018>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a
short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library
(ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries.
This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki
size. Read more details
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations/ICU_announcement>
. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189295>
- Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin
variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able
to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform/Serbian_Search_Update/sr>
or English
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform/Serbian_Search_Update>
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