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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/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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