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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/2017/32 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/pageviews/wivivi.html . [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiViVi - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee. You can read the charter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter . [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-July/088534.html

*Problems*

- You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29884 - The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170917

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/ instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147199 - Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Latin_script. The URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088559.html [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 - Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_Printing [9] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088565.html

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//Johan Jönsson