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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/2016/30> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Interactive maps
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Maps> have been
enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias.
Learn how to add interactive maps
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
to
wiki pages.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Last week's rollback is now documented. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCentralAuth/Retrospective>
*Problems*
- Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is
now fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140574>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all
wikis from 28 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>).
- It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on
Special:Notifications
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications>, by clicking on
the cog icon. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115528>
- Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or
fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching
language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll
out in 5 languages. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/086096.html>
*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 26 July at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=26&month=07&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 "an extension that
implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27
July at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=27&month=07&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E237>
*Future changes*
- The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English
"Notices")
will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140900>
- Special:Notifications
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications> page code will
be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140687>
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//Johan Jönsson