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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/2015/38> 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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