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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/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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