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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/2017/45> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log> unless you specifically
select it. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/384197>
*Changes later this week*
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey>
begins
on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=06&month=11&year=2017>
and
until November 19.
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.7> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all
wikis from 9 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the technical advice meeting
on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The
meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=11&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- URLs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL> that link to sections on
Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B…
instead
of
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be
fixed. Old links will still work. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75092>
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