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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/2016/20 are available.
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/2016/20 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122242
*Problems*
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085585.html
*Changes this week*
- Special:Notifications https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134204 - Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26191 - A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133800 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E184". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=18&month=05&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.
*Future changes*
- Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423
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//Johan Jönsson