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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/2016/22> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There is now a standard way to get the
target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68974>
*Problems*
- A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and
scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88044>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136375>
- CentralNotice
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CentralNotice> didn't
work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136387>
*Changes this week*
- When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest
of the page will be shown in its normal place. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58289>
- The Translate extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate> will
get an edit summary field. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48924>
- A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts.
Contact Bawolff <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Bawolff> if
the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on
your wiki. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11424>[8]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-May/001417.html>
- Elasticsearch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Elasticsearch> will be
upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if
you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason.
[9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133124>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 31 May at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=31&month=05&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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//Johan Jönsson