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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/2018/46> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not
worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility#Basic_(Grade_C)>.
This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia
535 with Windows 10. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196893>
*Problems*
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a
beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view
saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview.
This has been fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208840>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209012>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209036>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all
wikis from 15 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 14 November at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181114T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- You can use the content translation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> tool
to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/V2>. One of the
changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of
text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category.
This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been
warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text
from machine translations. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190798>
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//Johan Jönsson