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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/2016/13 are available.

*Recent changes*

- MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Semantic_Web. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130034 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130040

*Problems*

- Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130847

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap). - You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33309

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E152#1558. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=30&month=03&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-March/085100.html .

*Future changes*

- Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Wikidata_support:_getting_arbitrary_access_done - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-March/085113.html .

*Corrections*

- Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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