Hi,
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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/2015/45 are available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115152 - If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083770.html - Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111894
*Problems*
- On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=197206
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (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 3 November at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=11&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/October.
*Future changes*
- [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] A help link will be added to Special:Search https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115429 - Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083790.html
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//Johan Jönsson
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