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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/2016/39> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories>
you
can request it after a community decision. See how to request it
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories/How_to_request>
. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-September/001477.html>
- When you edit text and mention
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifications_types#Mentions>
a
new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only
happened under certain conditions. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138938>
- Users are notified if they are mentioned
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifications_types#Mentions>
in
a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one
section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one
section in one edit. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141863>
*Problems*
- The MediaWiki version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.19> that was supposed
to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new
problems. The MediaWiki version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.20> after it is now
on all wikis. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086564.html>
[5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086576.html>
*Changes this week*
- There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086563.html>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting
will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=27&month=09&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#IRC_office_hours>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Abandoned tools on Tool Labs
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tool_Labs> could be taken
over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools>
about
this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87730>
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