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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/2018/28> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- WebM video files <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WebM> have smaller
file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take
longer time. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VP9_transition>
- The new filters for edit review
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features>. This
was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this
will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195993>
- [image: Advanced item] All wikis now use the Remex parsing library
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/RemexHtml> instead of
Tidy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy>. This could
cause errors. You can help
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-June/001867.html>
fix the errors. [3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F>
*Problems*
- When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags.
This has been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190374>
- Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This
has been fixed. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198449>
*Changes later this week*
- When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate
buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label).
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55973>[7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124305>
- On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions
from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a
user page. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197581>
- When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get
your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have
already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures.
[9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192725>
- Structured discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions>
toolbars will have more style options. [10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109123#4400917>
- [image: Advanced item] When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Gerrit_(software)> there will be a new
interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for
developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening.
[11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196812>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all
wikis from 12 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/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 10 July at 18:30 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180710T1830>.
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 on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180711T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- Today all administrators can edit CSS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and JavaScript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> for the entire wiki. There
will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators
will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a
security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if
they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Creation_of_separate_user_group_for_editing_sitewide_CSS/JS>
. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190015>
- Page previews
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews> will
be on by default for new accounts. [13]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090297.html>
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