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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/2017/46 are available.

*Changes later this week*

- The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki and the test wiki https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-November/089099.html - A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MP3. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180002 - Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178990 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.8 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=15&month=11&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:STL_(file_format). You can see an example on the test wiki https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Programmatically_created_crystal.stl . [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:3d

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//Johan Jönsson