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*Recent changes*
- The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more
Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian,
Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the
mobile web and give feedback. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Advanced_mobile_contribution_options_second_update>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Advanced item] The abuse filter system user will soon do
maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Abuse
filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical
problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209565>.
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.14> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all
wikis from 18 July (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 July at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190717T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It
will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without
being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
and leave feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
. [2]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2019/03#Edit_action_feed_(Android_Wikipedia_app)>
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