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*Recent changes*
- The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_group_sign-up#Phase2 on their wikis.
*Problems*
- File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222935[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222954 - Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222857[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222628
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190521T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- The content translation tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/V2 on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation. [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Content_translation/Translating/Translation_quality - [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata wbeditentity API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013051.html
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