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Latest *tech news
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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/2016/50> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser> to send emails. This
has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address.
Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and
be able to see it. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66795>
- You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the
categories in Special:TrackingCategories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TrackingCategories>. This is to
help you find pages that could need attention. [2]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321225/>
- Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history> and recent changes
and logs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages> now
match Wikimedia standard colours <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82>.
The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a
slightly different colour. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-December/087151.html>
*Problems*
- Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist> global
renaming
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_rename_policy> is
not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global
renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as
well. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148242>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.6> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all
wikis from 15 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/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 December 13 at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=12&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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