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changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Changes this week*
* The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf22> of MediaWiki
has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all
Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
* The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it.
It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color.
Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T10303>
* VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least
as fast as the wikitext editor. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78628> [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90372> [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53569>
* When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it
right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71727>
*Meetings*
* You can read the notes
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-03-18>
from
the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
* You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team.
During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the
most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=03&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>.
*Future changes*
* Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on
mediawiki.org
<http://mediawiki.org> will soon use the new system
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>. [6]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sdoatsbslsafx6lw>
"New system"? Why is "Flow" a taboo word? And why make people think it
will have all of LQT's features?
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