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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/2017/11> are
available.
*Changes this week*
- You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more
than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources
in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen
is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that
use <references
/> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen
for all reference lists. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing/Projects/Columns_for_references>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33597#3082884>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all
wikis from 16 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 March at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=03&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Some old web browsers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser> will
not be able to use JavaScript
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> on Wikimedia wikis in the
future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to
a newer version. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128115>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] CSS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets> in templates
will be stored in a separate page in the future. [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tl7vrw6suzkxxoy9>[5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles/Q%26A>
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