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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/2015/34 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100786 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100787 [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access - Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CX if you still have problems. [4] https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/2015-08-13/
*Problems*
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107399 [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-August/001232.html - On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [7] https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/2015-08-13/
*Changes this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=18&month=08&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.
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//Johan Jönsson
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