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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/2019/51 are available.

*Problems*

- The Linter extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Linter helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface problem. It is now working again. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240057 - Special:Watchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218511

*Changes later this week*

- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169386 - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.11 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191218T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- The partial blocks https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NKohli_(WMF) if you don't want it now. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218626

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