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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/2017/19 are available.

*Problems*

- Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Hide categorization of pages in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164059 - There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164157

*Changes this week*

- When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162864 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.1 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May ( 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 9 May at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=05&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142102[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142103#3223284 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transclusion or web addresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL it has to be escaped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Escape_character appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Preprocessor and affects all wikis. [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups

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//Johan Jönsson