Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/11%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/2019/11 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Pages can use geocoordinates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625 from Wikidata with the mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements Lua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language) function or the #statements parser function https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Parser_functions. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer <maplink> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer#%3Cmaplink%3E if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210926. - There is now an EventStream https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventStreams to see when links are added or removed https://stream.wikimedia.org/?doc#!/Streams/get_v2_stream_page_links_change on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115119.
*Problems*
- Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time). This will start at 15:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190319T15. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217441. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis. - Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214976 - Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20190308-wdqs [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217898
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190313T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
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//Johan Jönsson