Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/47%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.
More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute%3E. You can also contact me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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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/2019/47 are available.
*Problems*
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191126T06. You can see which wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238046. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CentralAuth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CentralAuth/Global_rename . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238046
*Changes later this week*
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020. The survey decides what the Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#newformat about the format for this year. - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Meetings*
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191120T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
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