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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
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/38> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now see contributions from an IP range
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Range_blocks#Non-technical_explanation>
at Special:Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions>. Before you
could only see contributions from single IP addresses
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address>. Some older contributions
from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to
add them. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175105>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163562>
- Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions> and the
development has restarted
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions#Development_status>.
Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167928>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on
all wikis from 21 September (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 19 September at
18:30 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=11&month=04&year=2017>.
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 20 September at 15:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=09&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- We are replacing
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ> Tidy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML_Tidy> on Wikimedia wikis. Editors
need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified
instructions for editors
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F>.
Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the
new format now, you can file a task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Parsing-Team,Tidy,Wikimedia-Site-requests&title=Enable%20RemexHTML%20on%20XXwiki&priority=10&parent=175706>
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