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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/2017/09 are available.

*Problems*

- On 22 February the wikipedia.org https://www.wikipedia.org/ portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170222-www-portals

*Changes this week*

- You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153365 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=02&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_Manufacturing_File_Format and STL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format). The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132058 - The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148514[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Improve_site_branding

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//Johan Jönsson