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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/2017/14 are available.
*Recent changes*
- The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. 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 - The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_template_loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160743 - English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_HTTP_cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address the cookie will block them again. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233
*Problems*
- Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161263
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 4 April at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=03&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=05&month=04&year=2017. See how to join https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#IRC_office_hours.
*Future changes*
- New filters for Recent changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering , highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting_function and user intent prediction https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146972. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158332
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//Johan Jönsson
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