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Ændringer senere denne uge
- Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [1]
Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (===and!==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [2][3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 april. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 april. It will be on all wikis from 19 april (calendar).
Møder
- 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 17 april at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- Du kan deltage i mødet teknisk rådgivning på IRC. Under mødet kan frivillige udviklere spørge om råd. Mødet vil foregå på18 april at 15:00 (UTC).
Sehow to join.
Fremtidige ændringer
- The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [4]
- Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [5]
- Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.
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