I would add to that, this:

*On CA, EL, EN, HE, IT, RU, UG, and ZH language wikis, HTTPS is now mandatory for all users. It is expected other languages will be added soon. Some bots may need to be adjusted, and users of Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 will no longer have the edit summary field auto-completed, and are encouraged to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 if that presents an issue to them. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS#2015]

-- bawolff

On 6/15/15, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/25 . Below is the English version.

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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As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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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/2015/25 are available.

*Recent changes*

• Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation

tool. [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/09/content-translation-tool/

• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about

edit filters were removed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101648

*Changes this week*

• The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf10

of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (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 June 16 at 19:00 (UTC)

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=16&month=06&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19

at 16:00 (UTC)

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=19&month=06&year=2015 . [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html

*Future changes*

• Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If

you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100604about it. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76199

• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore.

[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101214 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101524 [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Compat_deprecation

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-- Guillaume Paumier