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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/2018/14 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Template Wizard https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Template_wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template. - [image: Advanced item] The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV.

*Problems*

- MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190960[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-March/000523.html [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-March/000524.html - The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183539

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.28 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap). - [image: Advanced item] User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76554 - [image: Advanced item] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-March/001821.html [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188881[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190726 - [image: Advanced item] AbuseFilter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132284 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39192 - In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186277 - You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141670 - You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular_expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87455

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=04&day=03. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_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 4 April at 15:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=04&year=2018. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:New_convenience_functions_for_Lua to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions. - [image: Advanced item] On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy. [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190731[15] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-March/001821.html

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