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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/16> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/April>
.
- You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/>.
You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95147>
- The list of bad user names on your wiki
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P384> no longer works. The global
list replaces it. You can ask to add rules
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Title_blacklist> for bad user
names on Meta. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38939> [3]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195623/>
*Problems*
- Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150408-s2-SiteStatsInit>
[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95426>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf1> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from
April 15 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday.
After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-April/001151.html>
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T37707>
- All users can now test link previews
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards>
("Hovercards")
on several Wikipedias. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88164>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the
meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=15&month=04&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
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