Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/47%3E. Below is the English version.

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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/2018/47 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019. The survey decides what the Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech will work on. You can vote until 30 November. - [image: Advanced item] There is an A/B test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209306

*Changes later this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181121T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-November/091113.html - The Education Program extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Education_Program was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Table_(database) used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174802

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//Johan Jönsson