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Latest *tech news
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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/2016/51> are
available.
*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 9 January 2017.
- 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 2016? 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*
- Administrators and translation administrators can now use
Special:PageLanguage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageLanguage> on wikis
with the Translate
extension <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translate_extension>. This
means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will
use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously
this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153209>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use
the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can
also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference
<https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements> between the two
statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152780>
*Problems*
- Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should.
We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files
that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the
wikis.
MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October.
Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been
affected since 17 November. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153217#2876258>
*Changes this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new
MediaWiki version next week either.
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The next meeting with the VisualEditor team
will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=01&year=2017>.
During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the
most important. 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/Special:MyLanguage/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey>
is done. It decides what the Community Tech team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech> will
work on during 2017. You can see the results
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results>.
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