Hi,

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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/2017/17 are available.

*Recent changes*

- New filters for recent changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158335 - When administrators https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Administrator, bureaucrats https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/bureaucrat and stewards https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:User_rights_and_groups#Assigning_and_revoking_user_groups [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159416

*Problems*

- Since the data centre test https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2017 last week the content translation tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163344

*Changes this week*

- The GuidedTour extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152827 - Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Cognate will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)/Cognate_announcement . [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)/Cognate_announcement - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=04&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

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//Johan Jönsson