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Latest *tech news
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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/2017/47> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- If you use the Chrome web browser on Android
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Android_(operating_system)> you can
see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted
PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_PDFs>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The abuse filter now has a function called
get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions –
one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179957>.
*Problems*
- Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of
a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180714>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178635>[4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171116-s5-dewiki-wikidata>
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you
think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at
19:30 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&year=2017&month=11&day=21>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting
on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The
meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=11&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links.
Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com;
zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-must
be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn:
http://foo.com ; zh-hk:
http://bar.com ;
zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects
languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are
Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119158>[6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2017-November/001730.html>
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