Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/16%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/2019/16 are available.
*Recent changes*
- All wikis now have the TemplateWizard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.1 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190417T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- Wikidata will get a new constraint status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal#Constraint_statements_on_properties called suggestion. This will change https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012911.html how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012910.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439 - You can test the depicts property https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Depicts_testing for structured data on Commons.
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//Johan Jönsson
wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org