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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/2019/24> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by
Proton <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proton>. Before this we used
Electron <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Electron>. It should look the
same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from
when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210651>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748>
- The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons.
There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next
deployment. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155878>
- [image: Advanced item] Bots and other scripts that do not set an
identifiable User-Agent
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User-Agent_policy> may
find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves
properly. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224891>
*Problems*
- Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as
you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Wikimedia-Site-Requests%2CMediaWiki-extensions-FlaggedRevs>
. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225144>
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [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 12 June at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190612T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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//Johan Jönsson