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*Tech News*
- Because of the holidays
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season>, the
next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
- The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion.
Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important
technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late?Please
tell us <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>! You can write
in your language. Thank you!
*Recent changes*
- CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is
available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester>
)
- The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload
tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from
16-23 December. (more information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/December_2015_cross-wiki_upload_A/B_test>
)
*Changes this week*
- There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need
stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Requests_for_comment/Password_policy_for_users_with_certain_advanced_permissions>
.
- No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5
January.
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