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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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