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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/2017/35> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Syntax highlighting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting> is now a beta
feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will
come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror>
. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165543>
- You will now get a notification
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Login_notifications>
when
someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a
device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be
notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get
an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an
email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.
[3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-August/088368.html>
*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 use
Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem.
You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the
error message. You can see how on this page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mw.wikibase.entity.lua_bug_fix_instructions>
. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039>
*Changes later this week*
- You can block users from sending you notifications. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150419>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all
wikis from 31 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 29 August at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=29&month=08&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540>. The meeting will be on 30
August at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=30&month=08&year=2017>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- In the future you will have global preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences>.
This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same
way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The
developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you
want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where
you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell
the developers now. You can do so on the talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Global_preferences>
. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-August/088447.html>
- New filters for edit review
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
is
a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists
from 5 September. [7]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-August/001648.html>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The jQuery library will be upgraded to
version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124742> to get it early, so they can
help find and solve problems now.
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