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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/2016/35 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Performance/Lazy_loading_images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-August/010335.html - When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119546

*Changes this week*

- The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&message=Publishpage when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&message=Publishchanges when you change an existing page. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139033 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.17 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=30&month=08&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T589". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=31&month=08&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.

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//Johan Jönsson