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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/38%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/2018/38 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Wikimedia Commons mobile app https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Mobile_app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [1] https://cookiesandcodeblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/commons-app-version-2-8-beta/ - [image: Advanced item] MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97192

*Problems*

- You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192475

*Changes later this week*

- Special:AncientPages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76287 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 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 19 September at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180919T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- The developers https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Team are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Navigation_prototype_feedback .

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//Johan Jönsson