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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/2018/36 are available.

*Recent changes*

- There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS and JavaScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190015[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200176 - There will be an A/B test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200792[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues - You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TemplateStyles . [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197617 - wp10 in ORES https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES is now called articlequality. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196240 - When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58845

*Problems*

- UploadWizard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard had problems with campaigns https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202760 - You can get a notification https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200119

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.20 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap).

*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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180905T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadmap_Review_-_2018-08-27.pdf about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadmap_Review_-_27_August_2018.webm . - The RelatedSites extension https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:Keegan_(WMF)/RelatedSites2 will be removed from Wikivoyage. - [image: Advanced item] Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS will be removed https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [10] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090735.html

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//Johan Jönsson