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Latest *tech news
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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/2019/39> 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