Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/04%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/2019/04 are available.
*Tech News*
- Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/03. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213942
*Recent changes*
- The content translation tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation can now use version 2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/V2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias. - https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PDF, EPUB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:EPUB or ODT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:OpenDocument. Previously this was 200 pages.
*Problems*
- When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213922 - MassMessage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213942[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139380 - Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213858
*Changes later this week*
- You will be able to use template styles https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles in the Module namespace. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200914 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190123T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
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//Johan Jönsson