Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/34%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/2018/34 are available.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180822T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2018_Community_Wishlist_Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November. - [image: Advanced item] Legacy JavaScript global variables https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#Global_wg_variables to fix old scripts. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72470
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//Johan Jönsson --