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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/2017/05 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The OAuth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96154

*Changes this week*

- ElectronPdfService https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150185 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- The Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech_team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative[4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-January/086013.html - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170131T235959&p1=1440. This is soon.

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//Johan Jönsson