Tech News (2018, week 26) - Wikitech-ambassadors

26 Jun 2018

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/26>gt;.
Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>gt;.

More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>gt;. You can also contact
me directly.

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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
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/2018/26> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] PAWS <https://paws.wmflabs.org/>, our
   JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PAWS/News/2018-06-21>. Several bugs
   should be fixed.

*Problems*

   - When a link text was in *italics* or had other formatting you could
   sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197213>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196914>

*Changes later this week*

   - Content translation
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation>
users
   who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and
   Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create
   better tools for translating articles. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194467>
   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all
   wikis from 28 June (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing
   team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are
   the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180626T1830>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_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 27 June at 15:00 (UTC)
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180627T15>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.

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//Johan Jönsson
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