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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/2018/06 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Edit-a-thon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185417 - The Wikidata vandalism dashboard https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdvd/index.php is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-January/011741.html - Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:File_verification in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181651

*Problems*

- Special:Export https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186318

*Changes later this week*

- When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Visual_diffs of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178248 - When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129372 - The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159302 - Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking_categories for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking_categories. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185743 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.20 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] 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 6 February at 19:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=02&day=06. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [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 7 February at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=07&month=02&year=2018. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- The Education Program extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Education_Program will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/. [9] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2018-February/001917.html [10] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2018/Education_Extension_scheduled_shutdown