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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Recent changes*
- "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool
Labs" is
now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of
these services. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-July/088466.html>
*Problems*
- On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will
normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently
ongoing. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168040>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all
wikis from 20 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
*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 18 July at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=18&month=07&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section
ids. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540> The meeting will be
on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=19&month=07&year=2017>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Page Previews
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features/Hovercards>,
currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all
remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of
24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data
before approaching the community for further discussion. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70860>
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