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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/2015/46 are available.
*Recent changes*
- Superprotect https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Superprotect has been removed. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-November/083866.html - You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49779 - [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109690
*Problems*
- Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117966
*Changes this week*
- Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Tagged_Image_File_Format files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116947 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/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 10 November at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=11&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.
*Future changes*
- A new tool https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/RevisionSlider to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/RevisionSlider. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110160 - The options on Special:Watchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50615
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//Johan Jönsson