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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>.
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