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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/2017/33 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Confirmed_users. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101983
*Problems*
- The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172592[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172805
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap).
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//Johan Jönsson