Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/50%3E. Below is the English version.

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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/2019/50 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki https://translatewiki.net/ to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations https://tools.wmflabs.org/watch-translations/ to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238216 - There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Geoeditors/Public and download the dataset https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/geoeditors/readme.html.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191211T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- You can test a new reference tool https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Book_referencing. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Cluster. You can see an example article https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Draft:Cut_the_Crap#cite_ref-3 . [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vc9k7gf9kvqxkkva

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//Johan Jönsson