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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the
symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it
now looks like this: [image: Octicons-tools.svg]. You can give feedback on
this change <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>.
*Problems*
- On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on
small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector>.
Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want
to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment
on Phabricator task T119206
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119206> until
December 21 2015. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150930-enwiki-readonly>
- Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to
recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not
updated. It has now been fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113721>
*Changes this week*
- Wikinews, Wikispecies,
MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use
information from Wikidata. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109780>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117524>
- There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 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 1 December at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=12&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517> for media. The meeting will
be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=12&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org.
The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148>
- Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you
will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114350>
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