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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/2015/18> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-April/077623.html>
[2]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/14/single-user-login-for-all-wikis/>
- You can read a report from experts who tested the security of
MediaWiki. [3]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/20/improving-security-for-our-users/>
- There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It
is now fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96533>
- You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-April/001167.html>
*Problems*
- Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [6]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150422-LabsOutage>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf3> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from
April 29 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when
you edit tables in VisualEditor. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87234>
- You now see more information when you search for a template in
VisualEditor. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53436>
- You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on
mobile, in VisualEditor. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91844>
- You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after
they're ready. [10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/203208/>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the
meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=29&month=04&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
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