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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/2017/23 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can see new files on Special:NewFiles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T13836 - When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150325 - You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162905 - New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142102

*Problems*

- The MediaWiki version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.2 from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165957

*Changes this week*

- Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language_Links will see languages they have in their Babel box https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Babel on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135371 - You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120733 - When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88270 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.4 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap). - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107128

*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 6 June at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=06&month=06&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- The 2006 wikitext editor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edit_toolbar_-_2.png. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing/Projects/Removal_of_the_2006_wikitext_editor [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30856 - Wikimedia wikis use OCG https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ElectronPdfService. You can tell the developers https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionalitywhat you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165956 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Architecture Committee https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Charter that describes the new committee.

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