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*Recent changes*
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up
less bandwidth. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122242>
*Problems*
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085585.html>
*Changes this week*
- Special:Notifications
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications> will have "mark
as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this
week. A JavaScript version will come later. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134204>
- Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature
button to produce. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26191>
- A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext
editor. This will include existing users. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133800>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.2> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for
change propagation <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E184>". The
meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=18&month=05&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean
<div></div>
and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that
use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423> is fixed these tags will
parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134423>
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