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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/2015/45> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on
Special:GadgetUsage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage>
. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115152>
- If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see
Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083770.html>
- Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device.
Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111894>
*Problems*
- On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=197206>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from
November 5 (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 3 November at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=11&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/October>.
*Future changes*
- [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] A help link will be added
to Special:Search <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search>.
Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Search-summary> message to
avoid two help links. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115429>
- Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could
affect some templates. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083790.html>
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