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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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