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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/2017/32> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a
specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/pageviews/wivivi.html>
. [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiViVi>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Architecture Committee is now the
Wikimedia
Technical Committee
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee>. You can
read the charter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter>
. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-July/088534.html>
*Problems*
- You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can
choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that
you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor
edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed
you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the
bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29884>
- The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was
because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170917>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.13> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all
wikis from 10 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP
will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't
connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we
get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on
Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/> instead.
Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet
Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147199>
- Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't
use the Latin script <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Latin_script>.
The URL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL> in the address bar in
your browser shows Latin characters like
.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in
the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the
script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
[6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088559.html>
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540>
- Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an
updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a
page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.
[8]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_Printing>
[9]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088565.html>
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