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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/2018/48> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- On wikis with translatable pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate> you
could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A
subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The
subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no
longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114592>
*Changes later this week*
- The advanced search interface
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:AdvancedSearch>
will
be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use
some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist.
It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193182>
- Special:UnusedCategories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UnusedCategories> show empty
categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not
show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can
do this with the magic word
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words>
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96041>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.6> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all
wikis from 29 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181128T16>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Advanced item] The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated
in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Reporting_JavaScript_errors> Use
of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know
if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you
should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There
is a migration guide
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#mw.util.jsMessage>.
It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193901>
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//Johan Jönsson