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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/2018/36> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and JavaScript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> for the entire wiki.
Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security
risk. This group is called interface administrators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators>.
Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190015>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200176>
- There will be an A/B test
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing> on the Wikipedia mobile
website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show
information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200792>[4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues>
- You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit
templates. This is because of TemplateStyles
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TemplateStyles>
. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197617>
- wp10 in ORES <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES> is
now called articlequality. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196240>
- When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message
in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed.
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58845>
*Problems*
- UploadWizard <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard>
had problems with campaigns
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns>. Users
could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202760>
- You can get a notification
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications> when
a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It
was fixed last week. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200119>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.20> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all
wikis from 6 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180905T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers> will work on
advanced mobile editing. You can read more
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadmap_Review_-_2018-08-27.pdf>
about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year.
You can also see the presentation
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadmap_Review_-_27_August_2018.webm>
.
- The RelatedSites extension
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:Keegan_(WMF)/RelatedSites2>
will be removed from Wikivoyage.
- [image: Advanced item] Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual
private server <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS>
will be removed
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge>. This will
happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [10]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090735.html>
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