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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/2015/30 are available.
*Changes this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf15 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102693
*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 July 21 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=21&month=07&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .
*Future changes*
- Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99369
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