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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/2018/42> are
available.
*Problems*
- Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server
switch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2018>.
Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and
other things might take a few more days to fix. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206743>
- Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from
translatewiki.net <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/translatewiki.net> again.
This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the
problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/121/translationwiki.net_security_incident/>
*Changes later this week*
- When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write
a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that
prevented edits had the same error message. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27086>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.26> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all
wikis from 18 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because
not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you
think are the most important you can use Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/> as normal. [4]
<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 17 October at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181017T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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//Johan Jönsson