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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