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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/08%3E. Below is the English version.

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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/2018/08 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182156[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184165 - You can now see statistics https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089518.html

*Problems*

- Linter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184280 - Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187495[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52769

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.22 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] 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 February at 19:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=02&day=20. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=21&month=02&year=2018. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6714. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185948 - Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts/Feedback_Round_Paragraph-Based_Prototype .

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//Johan Jönsson --