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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

You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [1]
You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [2] See documentation for the mhchem bundle.

Problems

A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [3][4]

Changes this week

There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [5][6]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [7]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [8]

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Exciting to see cross wiki notification rolling out. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:45, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Physikerwelt: Let's say I want to convert the following HTML to use the <ce> tag instead: NaCl + H₂SO₄ → NaHSO₄ + HCl
How do I write the inline plus? Or should I just interrupt the ce tag? That makes it way more clumsy. Your new approach is interesting because it makes the wikitext much more readable. --2003:71:CF36:C782:C0C2:828C:E942:7FE (talk) 22:09, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, you'd use {+}. --Physikerwelt (talk) 16:45, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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