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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/2019/29 are available.

*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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//Johan Jönsson