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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/2015/05 are available.
*Recent software changes*
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation tool on several wikis. [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/
*This week*
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-January/001075.html
*Future changes*
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_X. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-January/076480.html - The Compact Personal Bar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85541
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