Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/45%3E. Below is the English version.

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Thanks Benoît (Trizek) who took care of the issue this week (I'm merely delivering it).

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*Recent changes*

- Victoria Coleman https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-officer/ is the new Chief technology officer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Chief_technology_officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-officer/ - First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_28/RELEASE-NOTES-1.28 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086900.html - Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125317

*Changes this week*

- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey begins on 7 November. - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap). - Special:ActiveUsers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116354

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=00&day=08&month=11&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=11&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.

*Future changes*

- RevisionSlider https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148646[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149724[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149725 - Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-November/000331.html .

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