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Latest *tech news
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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/2016/18> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133094>
*Problems*
- There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend>. It showed
information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133700>
*Changes this week*
- You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on
Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132127>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in
Mediawiki core <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130528>". The meeting
will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=05&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they
edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when
pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Enable_by_default_some_default_options_for_new_users>
. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40796>
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