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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