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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/2017/25 are available.

*Problems*

- ORES https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time. It has now been fixed. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170613-ORES

*Changes this week*

- irc.wikimedia.org https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167643 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163923 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=06&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles works on Beta Labs https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/TemplateStylesTest.

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//Johan Jönsson