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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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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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