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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
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available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on
German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other
Wikipedias this week. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148>[2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CategoryMembershipChanges>
- Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with
RevisionDelete
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:RevisionDelete>.
There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or
"inverse" in Special:Log.
The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done
this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92230>
*Changes this week*
- You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you
are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in
that section. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7984>
- [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 26 January. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all
wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=26&month=01&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder>. It can
automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if
there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it
is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now
looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008004.html>
- The OTRS <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/OTRS> system
will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=08&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=02&year=2016>.
It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74109>
- Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some
edit count milestones. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124003>
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