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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/2016/07 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125174 - You can now use the Math extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Math to write chemistry formulas. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126272

*Problems*

- A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Tgr_(WMF)/Session_pollution. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-February/001345.html [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126069

*Changes this week*

- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-December/001305.html [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102 - Cross-wiki notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124234 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=16&month=02&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126271

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//Johan Jönsson