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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using
?action=raw&ctype=text/javascriptin the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [1][2]
Problems
- New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 Namekosi pisimw. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 Namekosi pisimw. It will be on all wikis from 4 Namekosi pisimw (calendar).
Meetings
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https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181003T15atjatjatjatjj xgatjj xgj xgatj$defaultfj xgormatj xg - You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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