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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/2016/36 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128697 - Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128913 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129757

*Changes this week*

- You will be able to use <maplink> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer#.3Cmaplink.3E on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-August/086391.html [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144062 - Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144181[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143101 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=06&month=09&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The CheckUser extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CheckUser could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CheckUser_requirements to figure out how. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139810

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//Johan Jönsson