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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/39%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/2017/40 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now use preload https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51622

*Changes later this week*

- If you have turned on "Automatically enable all new beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_wikitext_editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176181 - Special:Block https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Block and Special:Unblock https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107036 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124742 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 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 3 October at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=10&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=10&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists . [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists - The search function has used fallback languages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Language#Fallback_languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Discovery/Disabling_Messaging_Fallbacks_for_Language_Analysis .

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//Johan Jönsson