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available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59732>
- You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French
and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some
types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your
wiki. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62768>[3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid> [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Reference_Dialog#Auto-filled_Web_Citations>
- All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35890>
- You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with
VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93322>
- VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed
quickly. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93204>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf23> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from
April 1 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>
).
- VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93386>
- You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93210>
- You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English
Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gather/FAQ>
. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91341>
- You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not
looking at the top of the page. [11]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52206>
- VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any
more. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57769> [13]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61647> [14]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52100> [15]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51452>
*Meetings*
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on
IRC <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC> on March 31
at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=31&month=03&year=2015>
. [16]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html>
- You can read the notes
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-03-25>
from
the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the
meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=04&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
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