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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/2017/37 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can get a notification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/552232398 when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142102 - The Newsletter extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Newsletter is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-September/088714.html - The Linter extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Linter helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter/tidy-whitespace-bug . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173096

*Problems*

- Tech News 2017/36 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171030

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap). - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] OOjs UI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-September/088711.html .

*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 13 September at 15:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=09&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting. - [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 12 September at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=09&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- You can't use OCG https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ElectronPdfService instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality . - New filters for edit review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Txr92g0lwqv1rpao will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164489

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