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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/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