Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/41%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/2018/41 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Education Program extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Education_Program was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ or the Fountain https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/ instead. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125618

*Problems*

- There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108506

*Changes later this week*

- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=10&year=2018. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018 . - Because of the data centre test https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018 there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181010T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

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//Johan Jönsson