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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/2015/38 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now use the Wikidata query service https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007042.html - Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11823 - Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92357[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46649

*Problems*

- There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Book_Number in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63558 - The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/083162.html

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf23 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=15&month=09&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [7] https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/september-11-cx-update-fixes-in-broken-publishing-in-some-languages/ - The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [8] https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/september-11-cx-update-fixes-in-broken-publishing-in-some-languages/

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//Johan Jönsson

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