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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/2016/12> are
available.
*Problems*
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia
Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place
the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2016>. There will be
more notifications and updates about this.
- In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the
bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now
been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128282>
*Changes this week*
- It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve
CAPTCHAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CAPTCHA>. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103122>
- You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73564>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all
wikis from 23 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/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 22 March at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=03&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will
no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change
for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122933>
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//Johan Jönsson