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Hi,
It is now possible to export from MediaWiki to LaTeX (typesetting software), PDF, EPUB (Ebook Reader) and ODT (LibreOffice/OpenOffice/Other Word Processors). Is also possible to get HTML (images and formulas in high resolution, list of figures and list of contributors included; for further processing).

If relevant please include that into the newsletter 2019-2. For me at will be hard to do that from Monday until Wednesday next week, since I got a full time job. But I will be available during the weekend if any questions arise. Yours Dirk Hünniger (talk) 19:31, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello Dirk Hünniger, and thank you for that suggestion.
However, it came a bit late for the 2019-02 issue. According to the documentation, the newsletter content is usually frozen around mid-afternoon UTC and it is not advised to add content on Fridays.
We will consider to insert your news ont next week issue.
Best, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:51, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
It was meant for 2019-3 anyway. I was just confused that 2019-2 was the first issue in 2019. Thanks for looking a it. Dirk Hünniger (talk) 21:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Dirk Hünniger: Your tool has been around for a little while, is there anything new that's happened over the last few weeks? New functionality? /Johan (WMF) (talk) 09:09, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Trizek: Maybe this is something for the Tech Showcase? /Johan (WMF) (talk) 10:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
I think it is. The Tech Showcase is described as "Fresh software for Wikimedia caught on the spot. Plans, prototypes, releases... Do you have a scoop? Tell us in the Talk page!". Trizek (WMF) (talk) 14:45, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
The only thing new since it was last mentioned on tech news is export new formats epub and odt.Dirk Hünniger (talk) 18:47, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Dirk Hünniger: Since when is that new? /Johan (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Commit date is 2017-07-06 09:54:49
Tech News doesn't report on things that might be cool and that more people should be aware of, but happened a long time ago (even a few months is beyond our scope) – that's just not what people sign up to read the newsletter for, and we'd have to cover most of the technology available in the Wikimedia space, because most editors are unaware of a lot of tools. Trizek might be better suited to comment on the Tech Showcase perspective. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 04:46, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Futhermore support for Collections commit 2017-08-28
And very recently native Windows Command line version 2018-12-23 Dirk Hünniger (talk) 19:00, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Parts of 2019-03 not sent via mass message[edit]

The version of this week's tech news seems to have gotten cut off after "The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15" (diff). It doesn't include the content after that, which can be seen on Tech/News/2019/03. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:16, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello k6ka. Sorry to hear that.
It went well for translated parts, so I think that's a bad edit made when I've assembled everything. I'm sorry.
Since the link in the title is not broken, people can read the whole newsletter on Tech/News/2019/03.
Sending it again would be complicated.
Sorry again, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 18:57, 14 January 2019 (UTC)