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Latest *tech news
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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*
- 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_Functionality>what
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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