Hi,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
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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/2015/05> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation> tool on several
wikis. [1]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/>
*This week*
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-January/001075.html>
*Future changes*
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_X>. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-January/076480.html>
- The Compact Personal Bar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar> will be removed
for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector>.
It will come back when the bug is fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85541>
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