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Recent changes
Due to the rollback,
new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay.
[1]
In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices".
[3]
Problems
On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system.
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Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (
calendar).
The
RevisionSlider can be tested
on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
Meetings
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
19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on
20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Future changes
User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages.
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Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed.
[12]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (
calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on
Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon.
[13]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages.
[14]
Meetings
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
26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on
27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
[15]
Future changes
The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency.
[16]
Numbers on
Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
Development
Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (
phabricator:T140085)
When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (
phabricator:T137784)
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T138131)