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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
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/34> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The ORES review tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool> is
now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it
easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES
review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132371>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The norm and ccnorm functions have been
updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the
TitleBlacklist
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TitleBlacklist>
extension.
You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1",
"O" to "0" and "S" to "5"
anymore. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987#2557227>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The old pageview data in the
"pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer
being
updated. You can find the new pageview data here
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/>. This happened on August
5. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2016-August/005339.html>
*Problems*
- Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been
fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111815>
- When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect
without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106119>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all
wikis from 25 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 23 August at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=23&month=08&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification.
You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a
mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will
be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki
<https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139623>[7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135717>
- How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way
in the future. You can test the prototype
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Prototype_ready_for_testing>
. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139601>
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