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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/39%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/2019/39 are available.

*Problems*

- Some edits that used the visual editor were not working. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230272 - Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The developers are working on the problem. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232379

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.24 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 September. It will be on all wikis from 26 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap). - You will be able to read but not to edit an important number of mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes on 24 September at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190924T05. You can see which wikis https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s3.dblist . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788 - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on 26 September at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190926T05. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788

*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 25 September at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190925T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- Internet Explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer 6 and 7 might not be supported https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility in the future. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They would not get security support. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them makes the wikis less secure for everyone else. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232563

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//Johan Jönsson