Hi,

The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/22 . Below is the English version. The wiki version went out to subscribers yesterday but I forgot to send it to the list; my apologies.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next.

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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/2015/22 are available.

*Problems*

- VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150519-RESTBase - Some Labs tools had issues last week. [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150518-LabsOutage [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150519-LabsOutage

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf7 of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap).

*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 May 28 at 18:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=05&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .

*Future changes*

- You can add your ideas https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech_project_ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081768.html

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