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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/49> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can choose to see users from specific user groups in
Special:ActiveUsers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers>
. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116354>
- Everyone can now see Special:UserRights
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights>. Previously only
those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27319>
- ORES
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service> can
now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different
colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels> to recognize damaging
edits. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144922>
*Changes this week*
- You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories>. Previously you did
not see empty categories there. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12915>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all
wikis from 8 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/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 6 December at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=06&month=12&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey> will
decide what the Community Tech
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> team will work on next
year. You vote for wishes on the survey page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey> until
12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015
results page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results>.
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//Johan Jönsson