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*Changes later this week*
- Profiling statistics for an abuse filter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter> tell how often
edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset
after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often.
They can file a phabricator task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=AbuseFilter>
to do so. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132925>
- [image: Advanced item] Abuse filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter> will now treat
integers and floats
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic> more
precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and
2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division
values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (
=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191688>[3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter/Rules_format#Arithmetic>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.30> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all
wikis from 19 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>).
*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 17 April at 18:30 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180417T1830>.
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 18 April at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180418T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The new PDF renderer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181084> could
not create PDFs from books
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Books>. Books are in this
case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PediaPress> will take over development
of the books-to-PDF function. [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality>
- [image: Advanced item] Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> will
no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191192>
- [image: Advanced item] Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia
Communities and Contributors survey
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV>.
The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See
the privacy statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights_2018_Survey_Privacy_Statement>
.
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