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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/2016/06 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Syntax highlighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084695.html - When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121808 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] RESTBase https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114620

*Changes this week*

- Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124931[5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap).

*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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=02&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 per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=02&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.

*Future changes*

- Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy - Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125633[10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/Identifiers

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//Johan Jönsson