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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/2018/03 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184610 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There is a new Discourse test support channel https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/ for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [2] https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/t/welcome-to-wikimedia-developer-support/8

*Problems*

- Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:ASCII characters when a page was edited. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184749 [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-January/089399.html

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.17 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=01&day=16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=17&month=01&year=2018. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RemexHtml. This is to replace Tidy https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184656[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F

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