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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/2015/24 are available.
*Changes this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf9 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081863.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97553 - If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/212919/ - When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55546 - The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76947
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=06&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal . - You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=30&sec=0&day=10&month=06&year=2015 . [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081960.html
*Future changes*
- If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html
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