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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

Pywikibot stable release 3.0.20180603. [1]
The Wikimedia mobile apps now have a companion browser extension. This allows you to add pages to your synched reading lists on the Web to view on your mobile device. [2]

Problems

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Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

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 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The Readers Web team is hosting IRC office hours to discuss contribution tools on mobile Web via existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC).

Future changes

A new functionality will allow moving local wiki files to Commons while keeping all their original data intact. It’s scheduled to be deployed to first wikis in June.
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