Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/02%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/2016/02 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:ComScore. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement - You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph. There is now a tutorial for how to do this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Interactive_Graph_Tutorial . [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084416.html
*Problems*
- Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117332
*Changes this week*
- The Nuke extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke will work with Flow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115695 - New file uploads will now be patrollable. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11501 - Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility#Basic if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118303[7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-November/001286.html
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 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 January at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=01&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122933 - The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/December . [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102398[10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/December - There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-December/001305.html [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102 - The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123018 or on MediaWiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sw196pvf5vwt6pku so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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//Johan Jönsson