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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/2016/21 are available.
*Recent changes*
- You now see a warning message https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Restricted-displaytitle on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28546
*Problems*
- Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135809
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.3 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=24&month=05&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085618.html
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//Johan Jönsson
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