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*Recent changes*
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A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some
new problems turned up. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/085984.html>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112421>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139543>
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Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of
notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number
of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often
incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114356>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139323>[6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139521>
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Special:Notifications
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications> now has a
maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows
long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also
better parsed. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137425>[8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138433>[9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139602>
*Problems*
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On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20
minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some
gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on
other projects too. [10]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160705-commons-replication>
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Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by
visiting Special:Notifications
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications> page on their
wiki.
*Changes this week*
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[image: Inline image 3] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all
wikis from 14 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
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[image: Inline image 4] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=07&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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