Hi,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/22 .
Below is the English version. The wiki version went out to subscribers
yesterday but I forgot to send it to the list; my apologies.
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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/2015/22> are
available.
*Problems*
- VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due
to a tool it uses. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150519-RESTBase>
- Some Labs tools had issues last week. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150518-LabsOutage>
[3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150519-LabsOutage>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf7> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May
27 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the
meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=05&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
*Future changes*
- You can add your ideas
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech_project_ideas> of new
tools to help active users like you. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081768.html>
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