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Tech News
- There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
- Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can
read more
to see how to fix the filters.
- Only six accounts can be created from one
IP address
per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again.
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Changes later this week
- Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one
IP address
. An IP address can be
whitelisted
so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show
CAPTCHAs
when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday.
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- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (
calendar
).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
21 August at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- There is an
RFC
about creating a new global user group with the right to edit
abuse filters
. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can
read more and comment
.
Special:Contributions/newbies
will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead.
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