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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/25%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/2018/25 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Syntax highlighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185030

*Changes later this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180619T1830. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_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 20 June at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180620T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PlayStation_3. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147202[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196371 - The new filters for edit review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181193[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195993 - [image: Advanced item] All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/RemexHtml on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy. You can help https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-June/001867.html fix remaining errors. [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F

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//Johan Jönsson --