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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/2016/42 are available.

*Recent changes*

- There is a new newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Collaboration/Newsletter from the Collaboration team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/October_2016 .

*Problems*

- Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Public_key_certificate#Certificates_and_website_security last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20161013-GlobalSign - Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132834

*Changes this week*

- There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&oldid=898289

*Future changes*

- The Editing Department https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2017_wikitext_editor. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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//Johan Jönsson