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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/25%3E. Below is the English version.
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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/2019/25 are available.
*Problems*
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190619T05. This is to fix a hardware problem. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224516
*Changes later this week*
- MIDI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audiowill stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135597 - A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148103 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190619T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- [image: Advanced item] Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/504076
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//Johan Jönsson