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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/2016/18 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133094
*Problems*
- There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133700
*Changes this week*
- You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132127 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.1 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130528". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=05&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.
*Future changes*
- Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Enable_by_default_some_default_options_for_new_users . [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40796
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//Johan Jönsson