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*Recent changes*
- There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other
Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the
Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when
that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article
is a featured article. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73887>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.9> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all
wikis from 13 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you
think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 July at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=11&month=07&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This
will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will
probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125174>
- We will not use
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ> Tidy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML_Tidy> on Wikimedia wikis in the
future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will
need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified
instructions for editors
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F>
.
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