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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/2017/08 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M101. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152025

*Changes this week*

- Page Previews https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures called Hovercards. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156290 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There has been a problem where the CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets of gadgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Gadget has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RL/MGU#Gadget_type and peers https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RL/MGU#Gadget_peers. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42284 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] OAuth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156803 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=02&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

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//Johan Jönsson