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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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