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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