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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/2016/05> are
available.
*Problems*
- Sites with a
wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to
the Wikimedia
Foundation wiki <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> on 26
January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed
after an hour. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160126-WikimediaDomainRedirection>
- Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots
also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because
of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on
23 January. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160123-SessionManagerRolloutFailure>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123451>
- Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of
MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new
version this week will be without SessionManager. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084669.html>
*Changes this week*
- The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page
history
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Page_history> on
Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124885>
- Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long.
You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123657>[7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121935>
- The Universal Language Selector
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector>
input
methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write
in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51569>
- The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can
move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones.
You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88694>[10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85791>[11]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123826>
- The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you
are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it.
[12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121754>[13]
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&language=&group=ext-visualeditor-0-all>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all
wikis from 4 February (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 2 February at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=02&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list
entries <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E138>. The meeting will be on 3
February at 22:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=02&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The
rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut
down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at
each individual project domain instead. [14]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-January/084566.html>
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