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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/2015/40 are available.
*Recent changes*
- In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112907 - UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI look. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112117 - You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112925 - When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailUsers, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56130 - You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44979 - The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110140 - MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531
*Problems*
- Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [8] http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/156486/Static-assets-(CSS/JS)[9] http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/163388/Wiki-platform-%5B%5Bw%3Afi%3AMain-Page%5D%5D-(s2)
*Changes this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf1 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Request_Flow_on_a_page if they want to enable it. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98270 - The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [11] https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/september-24-cx-update-suggestions-in-new-languages-fixes-in-statistics-and-link-adaptation-and-more/
*Meetings*
- You can join the strategy process https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Strategy/Strategy_Process of the Reading department https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading of Wikimedia Engineering. [12] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/083316.html - You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=29&month=09&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.
*Future changes*
- The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth in the future. You can discuss it https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/OAuth_handover on Meta.
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//Johan Jönsson
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