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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/2016/40 are available.

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=10&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Tidy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML_Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89331

- <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps as soon as possible. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136768

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//Johan Jönsson