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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Problems*
- On 22 February the
wikipedia.org <https://www.wikipedia.org/> portal
did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript
file. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170222-www-portals>
*Changes this week*
- You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the
visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153365>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.14> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all
wikis from 2 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
*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 28 February at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=02&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_Manufacturing_File_Format> and
STL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)>. The plan is for
this to work later this week but it could be later. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132058>
- The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when
you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't
realize they are on Wikipedia. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148514>[5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Improve_site_branding>
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