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Latest *tech news
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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/2019/37> are
available.
*Changes later this week*
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes
on 10 September at 05:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190910T05>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788>
- When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it
follows the Password policy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Password_policy>.
From this week, it will also complain if you are a "privileged user" and
your password is too short. If your password is not strong enough, please
consider to change your password
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset> for a stronger
password <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Password_strength>. [2]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/534707>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.22> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 10 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 September. It will be on
all wikis from 12 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 11 September at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190911T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Advanced item] Soon, the AbuseFilter will recognize new syntax
errors. Specifically, it will recognize errors about empty operands. You
can see a list of examples in phab:T156096
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156096>. Any active filter with such
an error will stop working; hence, please take a look at the list of
affected filters <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156096#5464310>,
and fix the ones that you can fix. Note that there is also an ongoing RFC
on meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Creating_abusefilter-manager_global_group>
about the creation of a new abusefilter-manager global group.
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