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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/2017/20 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now use ISBNs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Book_Number to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145462 - The Two Column Edit Conflict View https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View is available as a beta feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162806

*Problems*

- The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/18 issue. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122755

*Changes this week*

- The RevisionSlider extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163685 - There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

*Future changes*

- Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Smalyshev_(WMF)/Archive_search[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Search#Provide_a_means_of_searching_for_deleted_pages - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transclusion or web addresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL it has to be escaped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Escape_character appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups/20170501 and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:False_positives_and_false_negatives. You can read more about what to fix https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups/Edit_logbook#Edit_Rules . [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/[8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups

*Older unreported changes*

- Your Meta user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90849[10] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words&diff=2462141&oldid=2425686

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//Johan Jönsson