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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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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_Functionality>what
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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