Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/24%3E. Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next%3E.
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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/2019/24 are available.
*Recent changes*
- When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proton. Before this we used Electron https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210651[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748 - The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155878 - [image: Advanced item] Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User-Agent_policy may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224891
*Problems*
- Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Wikimedia-Site-Requests%2CMediaWiki-extensions-FlaggedRevs . [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225144
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*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 12 June at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190612T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
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//Johan Jönsson