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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/2018/13 are available.

*Changes later this week*

- Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97631 - [image: Advanced item] The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187808 - TemplateStyles https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189834 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.27 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] 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 27 March at 18:30 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=30&sec=0&year=2018&month=03&day=27. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_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 one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=03&year=2018. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations/ICU_announcement . [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189295 - Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform/Serbian_Search_Update/sr or English https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform/Serbian_Search_Update .

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//Johan Jönsson