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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/29> are
available.
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*Recent changes*
- Due to the rollback, new sorting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifications_types>
of
Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123018>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Due to the rollback, the daily special
patch deployment process
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys> has been changed. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-July/000232.html>
- In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139682>
*Problems*
- On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to
a problem in the log-in system. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-July/000229.html>
[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119736>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.11> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all
wikis from 21 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>).
- Special:Log <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log> now has a help
link <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Log>. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140013>
- The RevisionSlider
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider> can be tested on
the beta cluster
<http://simple.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>.
From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia,
Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
*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 19 July at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=19&month=07&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a
cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=07&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126641>
*Future changes*
- User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105794>[9]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085618.html>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Gerrit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit> is going to be updated.
Developers are invited to test it. [10]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-July/000236.html>
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Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation