Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/10%3E. Below is the English version.

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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/2017/10 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515 - When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156578

*Problems*

- Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-March/date.html - Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158502

*Changes this week*

- The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116417 - The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154091 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/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 7 March at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=07&month=03&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Clarification*

- The 2017/09 issue of Tech News https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/09 mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_Manufacturing_File_Format format will be available later.

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//Johan Jönsson