Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/38>gt;.
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>gt;.
More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>gt;. You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
—————————————————————————————
Other languages:
Deutsch • English • français • português do Brasil • suomi • svenska •
čeština • Ελληνικά • русский • українська • עברית • العربية • فارسی
• हिन्दी • 中文 • 日本語 • ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ
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/2019/38> are
available.
*Problems*
- Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the
newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The developers are working on
the problem. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232379>
- There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new
version was paused. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-September/092535.html>
*Changes later this week*
- You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up
to 30 minutes on September 17 at 05:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190917T05>.
You can see which wikis
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s2.dblist>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.23> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 17 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 September. It will be on
all wikis from 19 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/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 18 September at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190918T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
Android invites users to do small tasks. This is to get more readers to
edit. If they get reverted too many times it will pause or block the tasks
for that user. All normal editing will still work if the community doesn't
block the user. The developers want to know if the plan looks OK.
You can see
what it could look like
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#Suggested_Edits_3.0_-_Improved_Suggested_Edits_Homescreen_and_Feature_Pausing>
and give feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks>
.
- [image: Advanced item] When you look at an old version of a page you
get a warning that this is not the newest version. This uses the CSS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets> class
.mw-revision. It will use the CSS class .warningbox for styling instead.
If your wiki uses templates to change how the warning looks they will have
to be updated. This will happen later. If this would cause problems you
should tell the developers in the next couple of weeks. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232415>
*Tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by Tech News writers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and
posted by bot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/38> • Get
help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
//Johan Jönsson