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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/2016/51 are available.

*Tech News*

- Because of the holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017. - The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News! You can write in your language. Thank you!

*Recent changes*

- Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translate_extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153209 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152780

*Problems*

- Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153217#2876258

*Changes this week*

- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=01&year=2017. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech will work on during 2017. You can see the results https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results.

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