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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/2015/29> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now see a list of pages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_syntax_highlighting_errors>
with
errors in code coloring. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103586>
*Problems*
- There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and
VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150709-poolcounter>
- There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all
wikis for 15 minutes. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105304>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf14> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July
16 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this
week. [4] <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon>
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