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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/2016/04 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CategoryMembershipChanges - Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92230

*Changes this week*

- You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7984 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.12 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=26&month=01&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008004.html - The OTRS https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=08&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=02&year=2016. It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74109 - Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124003

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//Johan Jönsson