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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/2019/46 are available.

Recent changes

- MediaWiki2LaTeX https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org/ can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191113T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

Future changes

- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Google_Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2019. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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