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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/2017/31> are
available.
*Problems*
- Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line
34: The entity data must be a table obtained via
mw.wikibase.getEntityObject.
This problem happens on pages with a Lua module
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_Lua_(programming_language)> that uses
Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a
page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039>
- Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28
July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in
the incident
report
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170728-s5_(WikiData_and_dewiki)_read-only>
.
*Changes later this week*
- Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page
buttons
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Contributors/Projects/Accessible_editing_buttons>.
All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162849>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all
wikis from 3 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 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 1 August at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=08&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users.
Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change
this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on
Macs and iOS devices. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171201>
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