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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/2019/50> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki <https://translatewiki.net/> to
translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/watch-translations/> to watch projects there.
You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238216>
- There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors
per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the
documentation
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Geoeditors/Public>
and download the dataset
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/geoeditors/readme.html>.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.10> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be
on all wikis from 12 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the
meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11
December at 16:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191211T16>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- You can test a new reference tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Book_referencing>.
It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without
repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Cluster>. You
can see an example article
<https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Draft:Cut_the_Crap#cite_ref-3>
. [2] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vc9k7gf9kvqxkkva>
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