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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/2017/17> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- New filters for recent changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
are
now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in
your preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>.
Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158335>
- When administrators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Administrator>,
bureaucrats <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/bureaucrat> and stewards
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/stewards> make a user a member of a
user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example
"administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone
user
rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page
protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights> will have new
options for this. You can read more about user groups.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:User_rights_and_groups#Assigning_and_revoking_user_groups>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159416>
*Problems*
- Since the data centre test
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2017>
last
week the content translation tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> has
been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as
soon as the problem has been solved. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163344>
*Changes this week*
- The GuidedTour extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour>
will
be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to
edit. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152827>
- Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate
extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Cognate> will
automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this
to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read
more about this
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)/Cognate_announcement>
. [5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)/Cognate_announcement>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all
wikis from 27 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=04&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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//Johan Jönsson