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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/2017/12 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing/Publish - DMOZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wayback_Machine or another mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Website#mirror_site. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RelatedSites on Wikivoyage. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128326 - You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125917 - The Linter extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Linter is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=small.dblist. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148609 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The MediaWiki-Vagrant https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Debian_version_history#Debian_8_.28Jessie.29. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-March/087762.html

*Problems*

- On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160465. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160465

*Changes this week*

- When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+ Shift+X on Macs. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153356 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.17 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap).

*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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=21&month=03&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

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