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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/09> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP
address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160357>
*Problems*
- Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089550.html>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187942>
- Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February
UTC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time>, when
you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked
edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks
for. This has been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187757>
- Special:Statistics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics>
did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018.
Because of this the statistics are recreated. [5]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/411400/>[6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187845>[7]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News/2018/09>
*Changes later this week*
- Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer
get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your
computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187869>
- [image: Advanced item] The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex
parsing library <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RemexHtml>. This is to
replace Tidy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy>. It
will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon
when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in
the middle of 2018. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188000>[10]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.23> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all
wikis from 1 March (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 27 February at 19:30 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=02&day=27>.
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 28 February at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=02&year=2018>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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