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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/2017/24 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165856 - When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/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 13 June at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=06&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/LoginNotify - Wikimedia wikis use OCG https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ElectronPdfService. You can tell the developers https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionalitywhat you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165956 - Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete. [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Smalyshev_(WMF)/Archive_search[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561

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//Johan Jönsson