Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/19%3E. Below is the English version.

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(Thanks Benoît (Trizek) who edited this week's issue, and wrote most of it.)

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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/2016/19 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Development_plan&diff=326125500&oldid=318553405 - You can use Wikipedia GapFinder http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend to find missing articles between languages. [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/27/article-recommendation-system/ - Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117669[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130655 - You can use keyboard shortcuts https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts to open the visual editor (*meta*+V) or the wikitext editor (*meta*+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116406 - Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131496 - The UploadsLink https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130018 - Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41415 - Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133008

*Problems*

- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134553

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.1 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 May 10 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=05&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=11&month=05&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings. - 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017 (Austria).

*Future changes*

- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories if the change will cause problems. [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8948

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//Johan Jönsson